Russian propagandist Margarita Simonyan released an audio recording of allegedly high-ranking German officers discussing asking Great Britain for help in planning an attack on the Crimean bridgehead with Taurus missiles. Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defense has launched an investigation into whether the conversations of representatives of its air force were intercepted, reports Ukrainian Pravda and Tasse.

Simonyan first published on her VK page a transcript of an audio recording of an alleged conversation between several German Air Force generals discussing how to deploy Taurus missiles and strike the Crimean bridge.

After this post, the press secretary of the Kremlin, Dmytro Peskov, said that the Kremlin does not yet have information about the contents of the recording.

Later, Simonyan also published the recording.

“As promised, I am publishing an audio recording of a conversation between Bundeswehr officers discussing how they are going to bomb a bridge in Crimea,” Simonyan wrote in Telegram.

A German defense ministry spokesman said the Federal Military Counterintelligence Service (BAMAD) had “initiated all necessary measures” to investigate the incident.

Russian propaganda actively sought details about the general suspects in the tape, whom it was able to identify in the tape of unknown origin.

The bridge across the Kerch Strait, which is also called “Putin’s bridge”, consists of two sections, road and rail, was built and put into operation by Russia in 2018.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the German government must explain the comments on the tape, otherwise Berlin will consider it an “admission of guilt.”

The footage, released by Simonein, comes at a time when Germany has stepped up discussions about the possible supply of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, which the federal government categorically rejects.