Putin leads against Germany "Hybrid War": Pistorius about a scandal with listening

German Minister Boris Pistorius called the Russian government's statements that Germany is "preparing for war with Russia". German Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius commented on Sunday, March 3, the publication of the Kremlin intercepted telephone conversation by the Bundeswehr officers. About it writes German Bild.

In his statement, Pistorius stated that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is leading an "information war" against Germany and this is an example of a "hybrid attack" of Russia, whose purpose is to "undermine our determination and our unity. " The Minister of Defense stated that he had instructed a full investigation into the incident, to find out the authority of the officers and the correctness of the choice of communications - the Webex tool.

At the same time, he urged not to be "Putin's tricks" and to consider what happened in a wider context: it is no coincidence Jana Marsalek. "On the published record, the officers thought out different scenarios, and this does not mean" Green Light "to transfer the Taurus missiles to Kiev. Nowadays to react now is exactly what the dictator wants to achieve," Pistorius said.

In addition, the Minister called the "corrupt" actions of the Russian government, such as Putin's proxy, Dmitry Medvedev that Germany is "preparing for war with Russia. " "In other words, it is a purposeful, organized propaganda campaign," Pistorius stated. He assured that he "did not want to speculate" personnel consequences before the investigation was completed, but did not exclude it. He stressed that he was waiting for a military counterintelligence report.

In addition, in addition to the published recording of the conversation of the Bundesver officers, it is not known about other leaks of information at the moment. "Moscow behaves as if the Bundesver planned an attack on Crimea. It is a crazy lie. It is impossible to allow Putin to divorce us," Pistorius summed up. On Friday, March 1, the head of the Russian propaganda RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan published records of alleged conversations of four high -ranking military Bundesver.

They seemed to talk about the potential use of Taurus long -range rocket. In addition, German officers probably said that Ukraine can use winged missiles to attack the Crimean bridge. According to Simonian, one of them is the German Air Force commander Ingo Herhartz. We will remind, on March 1, the media wrote that the United Kingdom tends to provide Germany with Taurus missiles.