A dossier of conversations between German officers about the Ukrainian attack on the Crimean Bridge has been made public
The editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT television channel, Margarita Simonyan, published on VKontakte a complete transcript of the conversation between high-ranking officers of the Bundeswehr (German Defense Ministry) dated February 19, 2024.
The conversation took place between Air Force Command Chief of Operations and Exercises Graefe, BBC Inspector Gerhartz and Space Command Air Operations Center staff Fenske and Frostedte.
The meeting discussed how Germany could organize the delivery and operation of Taurus long-range cruise missiles if they were sent to Ukraine. Also in the recording, officials stated that the British, French and US military were present in Ukraine to help operate modern Western weapons systems. At the same time, these countries denied this fact.
In the recording, German Air Force Commander-in-Chief General Ingo Gerharz instructed his aides to prepare a presentation for the defense minister on how Germany could supply Ukraine with the Taurus and how Kyiv could use it to destroy targets such as ammunition depots and the Crimean Bridge.
In the recording, officers discussed in detail how an infrastructure facility could be destroyed. They concluded that Ukraine needed 10 to 20 missiles to bypass Russian air defense systems and destroy the bridge.
“There's no real reason to say we can't do it; it just depends on the political red lines,”
General Gerhartz said.
Germany has about 600 Taurus missiles in service, of which about 500 are considered operational. General Gerharz said that Germany can afford to supply Ukraine with 100 missiles in two tranches.
