Germany Probes Military Security Leak After Russian Wiretap
- Russian media published conversation of military leaders
- Talk centered on Taurus missiles Scholz has ruled out sending
A Taurus missile.
Photographer: Andrew Wheeler/Bloomberg
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Germany’s defense ministry is probing an intelligence leak after Russian media published a conversation between high-ranking air force officials about the possible deployment of Taurus long-range missiles in Ukraine.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on the sidelines of a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, spoke of the incident as a “very serious matter.”