German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said authorities were looking into the matter "very carefully, very intensively and very quickly."
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00:00 Germany has admitted that Russia may have managed to listen in as senior air force officials
00:05 discussed whether Ukraine should be supplied with tourist cruise missiles.
00:09 Chancellor Schulz has stalled for months on whether to supply Ukraine with the weapon.
00:13 They have a range of up to 500 kilometers and so could in theory hit targets inside
00:18 Russia.
00:19 One MP doubted whether it was just an isolated case of eavesdropping.
00:23 "The federal government must make its own time-frame in communication technology, because that
00:30 will certainly only be the tip of the iceberg.
00:32 And it must also be clarified why the chancellor is going into public with false claims, where
00:38 he says that German military participation is necessary on the ground."
00:42 The leaked recording reveals air force officials discussed using tourist cruise missiles to
00:46 hit the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia to the strategic Crimean peninsula.
00:51 Schulz has been reluctant to send powerful weapons to Kiev, fearing it could draw Germany
00:56 into the war.
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