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.”