The conversation of the German military about the potential attack on the Crimean Bridge is authentic, the officers used a communication platform for meetings, Germany's DPA news agency reported.
Earlier, several German troops, who spoke to the German newspaper Die Welt, noted that the recording is circulating within the Bundeswehr.
On Friday, the text of the discussion of the four German military officials concerning the strike on Russia was published by Simonyan. Inspector of the German air force Ingo Gerhartz, Brig. Gen. Frank Graefe, head of the operations and exercises department at the Air Force Command, and two employees of the air operations center of the Bundeswehr Space Operations Center were involved in the talk, which took place on February 19.
The German defense ministry so far refused to give a comment on the issue. Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said regarding the conversation that the West has fully launched a hybrid war against Russia.
During a presser at the diplomatic forum in Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, commenting on the leaked Bundeswehr's discussion, highlighted that the "war camp" in the West is still strong, they are not changing its course.