WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Germany’s defense minister on Sunday described Russia’s leak of a conversation by ranking German military officers to be part of Russia’s “information war” against the West, and that the aim was to create discord within Germany.
In the audio recording leaked by Russian state media on Friday, German military officers can be heard discussing support for Ukraine, including the potential use of Taurus missiles.
The audio was leaked on the same day that late opposition politician Alexei Navalny was laid to rest after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony.
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said the timing was not a coincidence.
What’s a concern here is the lapse in German operational security. The Russians probably already knew that British troops are involved long before this happened.
So yes this is a propaganda information tactic to undermine confidence.
A complete fuck up none the less though.