The German government should do its best to support Ukraine. He made such a statement in an interview with a newspaper. handelsblatt It was made by German MP Roderich Kiesewetter, foreign policy expert of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
He noted that it is especially important now for Berlin to show its strength and not give in to intimidation. We are talking about the media coverage of an audio recording of a conversation between senior officers of the German Armed Forces discussing the plan to attack the Crimean Bridge.
According to the MP, in the current situation, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz must agree to supply Taurus cruise missiles to the conflict zone. At the same time, he emphasized that the information that the phones were tapped during the officers’ interview was true.
“Much more can be expected to be intercepted and disclosed for the purpose of influencing decisions, discrediting and manipulating people,” Kiesewetter added.
At the same time, he did not rule out the possibility that the country’s leadership was hesitating to supply Kiev with long-range missiles because Moscow knew full well what was going on. The conversation between German officers may have been “deliberately leaked online” to put pressure on Scholz, the expert said.
On March 1, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the RT television channel, reported that she had obtained an audio recording of the conversation between senior German officers. Later journalist published Part of a conversation in which representatives of the German Armed Forces discussed the plan to hit the Crimean Bridge using Taurus cruise missiles.
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