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Mansur Mirovalev

Russia spins German military leak but chances of escalation slim: Analysis

Lieutenant-General Ingo Gerhartz, centre, discussed striking a key bridge as the war in Ukraine drags on [File: Annegret Hilse/Reuters]

Russian propagandists made sure the German military’s most embarrassing leak in years would look like an episode of the 1941-1945 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

“Comrades in uniforms,” or Russian intelligence services, intercepted a 38-minute-long conversation between German Air Force chief Lieutenant-General Ingo Gerhartz with his officers, Margarita Simonyan, the head of the Kremlin-funded RT television network, wrote on social media on Friday.

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