No wonder Scholz is very annoyed, he just explained in the form of a leak a few days ago that Germany will definitely not provide Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, and the German army will not directly participate in the war; As a result, within two days, a recording of German officials discussing the supply of missiles to Ukraine to help Ukraine bomb the Crimean bridge was exposed; **Editor-in-chief of Russian TV, authentic and reliable. Russian spokeswoman Zakharova demanded an explanation from Germany.
The main points of the recording are as follows:1. The Luftwaffe** confirmed that Western servicemen modified Ukrainian aircraft in the war zone to be able to carry "SCALP Storm Shadow cruise missiles." In addition, the F-16 fighters obtained by Ukraine cannot carry Taurus missiles in their current configuration, and it will take about 6 months to integrate with Ukraine's existing fighters (whether F-16 or Sukhoi), and the consequence is that it is easy to leak information. 2. Another point of contention is data custody. Germany, even if it supplies Taurus missiles, does not want to take responsibility for anything that happens. But the "solution" is also interesting: they want the target data to be provided by the manufacturer MBDA, which the Germans have to process themselves and physically hand over to somewhere in Poland, so that they cannot be traced to Germany through digital forensics. 3. German officials believe that the attack on the Crimean bridge faces great technical challenges. The German official said that the Ukrainian army must use up all the missiles provided in one offensive, because Russia's adaptability will make the missiles quickly ineffective. It's also a big problem. Germany says it may be possible in two batches** of 50, but not more.
They also mentioned that the Storm Shadow missiles supplied by Europe, according to NATO, are running out, which has put political pressure on Germany to act. 4. More technical issues were also discussed during the call. The number of Su-24 fighters in Ukraine is only in the "single digits", and the pillars of the Crimean bridge are too thin to be precisely aimed and may require a salvo of 10-20 missiles to complete the attack. 5. The German officer also wants to know why Ukraine is so obsessed with this bridge. Because with the completion of the land railway from Rostov to Crimea via Kherson, the bridge will become less important for Crimea. 6. They are not very sure about the configuration of the Russian air defense system, which means that they have not yet figured out the location of the radar. That is, they are not confident in their data, but they actually think that Ukraine may have these data. Then there was the plan for an attack on Crimea, which I thought was not very reliable, but finally decided to try it. If the Bundestag votes for the Taurus cruise missile, they will hand over this attack plan to the Ukrainian army...Scholz slapped in the face.
And one more question, who leaked it? 1, it may be unexpected to everyone, and it is by no means deliberately leaked to Russia by the US and British intelligence agencies. Why? Because the United States and Britain always want to provoke and aggravate the contradictions between Russia and Germany, and it is better to have a direct confrontation between Germany and Russia. Therefore, even if the United States and Britain stole the meeting and conversation of the German officials, they would wait until the German army really attacked the Crimean bridge, and then poke out this recording, so that the German army could actually attack the bridge. In this way, the German-Russian confrontation became a fact, and the United States and Britain achieved their goal. 2, if it is poked out before the attack has occurred, it is very likely that the Russian intelligence agencies stole the information. Russia does not want to directly confront Germany, so it deliberately released it, one to thwart the attack plan, and the other to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, to give Germany a preventive shot, and not to come nonsense. 3, German intelligence agencies deliberately put it out. Let Russia get the news, deliberately test Russia's reaction, or let Russia make a big fuss in order to prevent a direct confrontation between Germany and Russia. The point is to act for Britain and the United States to see, it's not that our German army doesn't want to beat the **, people found out in advance.