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Germany’s Defense Ministry on Saturday confirmed the authenticity of a recording of a confidential discussion between high-ranking Bundeswehr officers regarding the war in Ukraine that was leaked by Russian state media.

The head of Russian state broadcaster RT, Margarita Simonyan, on Friday published what she said was an audio recording between German officers, including the chief of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz.

On the audio leak, they spoke about ways German officers could supply Ukrainians with targeting information without appearing to be directly involved in the conflict with Russia.

“If this story turns out to be true, it would be a highly problematic incident,” Konstantin von Notz, the chairman of the Bundestag’s parliamentary oversight committee, told broadcast network Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland.

Roderich Kiesewetter, of the center-right Christian Democratic Union and deputy chairman of the Bundestag’s parliamentary oversight committee said it seemed that Russia had leaked the conversation to put pressure Germany not to supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova demanded that Germany “promptly” provide an explanation and claimed the audio was evidence of a “hybrid war” the West was waging on Russia.

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