2 march, 2024
Ivan Stupak, a military expert and Ukrainian Security Service officer in 2004-2015, believes that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has violated the golden rule of intelligence
He stated this on Espreso TV.
“The Russians are spying on NATO soldiers and officers around the world, we must understand this, this is another example. No one can say for sure how many previous conversations have already been listened to by the Russians in this way. The officers used the Zoom analogue, they communicated there, a conference was held for four people,” the expert said.
Stupak stressed that the main questions are whether the messenger was hacked or whether one of the four officers worked for the Russians, recorded the conversation and later passed it on to the enemy, but did not expect them to distribute it.
“The person who published this recording, and it’s important to just understand this, is Margarita Simonyan, the queen of Russian propaganda, but she has an extremely close and friendly working relationship with Alexei Gromov, who is the first deputy head of President Putin’s administration. I’m just more than sure that Gromov showed this recording to Putin, or sat with the security forces with Patrushev, Bortnikov, and Putin personally ordered it to be published. What does this do? He has such a sick idea that NATO is fighting on the side of Ukraine, and this conversation, just communication, is further evidence that he is “right”. But he broke a very golden rule in intelligence – never, ever expose your sources in intelligence,” the former Security Service of Ukraine official explained.
He recalled the example of World War II: when the British and Poles broke the code of the encryption machine on German submarines, they kept this information extremely secret, and even when they decrypted the records, they did not disclose the sources of their information.
What preceded
On February 22, members of the German parliament voted in favour of a recommendation to provide Ukraine with long-range weapons. Presumably, it was about Taurus missiles.
Earlier this week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz explained in detail his refusal to supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine. He noted that “the Taurus has a range of 500 kilometres, and if it is misused, it could hit a target somewhere in Moscow”. In addition, according to the chancellor, to ensure control over the use of missiles, it would be necessary to send German troops to Ukraine, but this is out of the question. Scholz fears that this could indirectly draw Germany into the war in Ukraine.
On the morning of March 1, the editor-in-chief of the Russian propaganda TV channel RT, Margarita Simonyan, reported that she had allegedly received a 40-minute audio recording of “high-ranking Bundeswehr officers” discussing possible strikes on the Crimea bridge using Taurus missiles. Simonyan published a transcript of the conversation, which, according to her, took place on 19 February 2024, as well as the audio recording of the conversation, the participants of which communicate with each other in German. The Russian Foreign Ministry then demanded an explanation from the German government.
The German Ministry of Defense has launched an investigation into whether internal conversations in the Air Force could have been intercepted. A defense ministry spokesperson in Berlin said that “the Military Counterintelligence Service (BAMAD) has taken all necessary measures”.
IMHO, it was a mistake for the mafiosi to make the wiretap public. It won’t achieve much of anything except increase the awareness in the West that they are acting like naive clowns.
Yup, Mr. Ofp, this publication will unavoidably make intelligence operations against Germany more difficult. Because Bundeswehr officers, typically dreaming of retiring as generals, have been shocked by this and wakened up to this dire threat to their careers. Nobody wants to become the next fool to be caught when carelessly talking in a hotel room or over an unencrypted (!) video conference software. There will be consequences and they will make the work of the FSB harder.
So, in the long term, not a smart move, and it’s not even certain that this will prevent the delivery of Taurus. Because German opposition CDU is right, this leak proved that Scholz had exaggerated his concerns about a German involvement in the war. The officers in the leaked conversation did point out ways to avoid “boots on the ground” in Ukraine, after all.
Indeed, Mr. Gray, even my dog knows that Scholz is telling fairy tales about the Taurus just to cover up his underwear soiling fear.
Putler sees opportunities in Germany, which has had at least two Chancellors since WW2 that are Russian agents.
A reverse takeover from the east is at least a possibility.
Also, we know that putler’s western support base comes almost exclusively from the far left and far right. In Germany, AfD could well go into coalition with the tankie parties as well as other hard right turd-arses in order to get hold of power.
Hmm, which two post-war chancellors had been Russian agents, Scradge1? Do you have any hard evidence supporting this? Not even regarding Schroeder is it clear if he worked for Putin while in office. It rather seems Putin bribed him after that. 🤨
If you are on the payroll of its fascist genocide gang, as Schroeder is, then you are by definition a Russian agent. The same applies to all western employees of eg: RT, such as George Galloway.
As for Merkel, whether actual or defacto is irrelevant. Her entire career has been in the service of Russia. Minsk 1, Minsk 2, the €60 billion/yr she paid to Russia or the many, many stomach-churning pro-Russia statements she made.
After the invasions of Crimea and Donbas, she said : “there is no military solution”; just after putlerstan had imposed one! You could not make it up.
Just a cursory glance at her biographical details confirms what she was and still is. Her father was a scuzzball Russian collaborator and the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
Ok, fair enough, Scradge1, retired Schroeder, working for Putin’s interests for a huge salary, can reasonably be called a RuSSian agent. What was behind Merkel’s and to a lesser degree Scholz’ pro-Russian stance is less clear, however. I suspect the FSB has kompromat on both of them, but there’s no hard evidence yet. 🤔
Mr. Gray, I consider the “Schmierlappen” Schröder as a ruskie agent and the “Fette Zecke” Merkel as one.