The German defense establishment has stated that its internal communications were not broken into during the disclosure of a conversation among senior officers about a potential assault on the Crimean Bridge using Taurus missiles. The assertion came from the German Defense Minister in a public briefing. He noted that the Bundeswehr employs the WebEx platform for confidential meetings, specifying that this is a certified, non-public option intended for business use rather than a general consumer service.
Earlier, on March 1, an editor known for leading a prominent Russian media group published what she described as a transcript of a discussion among German officers. The text allegedly touched on the possibility of supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine and on plans to strike the Crimean bridgehead and its ammunition depots. The publication suggested the participants were weighing strategies to support Kyiv in ways that would avoid Germany becoming a direct combat participant. Additional context was provided by a separate outlet reporting on the material.
There were other remarks from the Russian foreign ministry that criticizes Germany’s denazification process as not yet complete, a statement that has fed into broader debates about postwar accountability and regional security dynamics.