Former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace fell into the trap that the Russians set by wiretapping high-ranking German officers and publishing them. The Berlin government's ambassador to London, Miguel Berger, is convinced of this, according to whom Wallace's words are “what Russia wanted by publishing this telephone conversation.”
In his commentary on the “leak,” Wallace had spoken of confirmation of how Russian intelligence had managed to infiltrate Germany, which at that point could no longer be considered “neither safe nor reliable.” “We have to be careful not to fall into the Russian trap of creating divisions. Unfortunately, some people and some media have fallen into this trap,” commented Berger. The leak, he continued, “is a hybrid attack by Russia. “Obviously the intention is to destabilize the West,” Berger added, noting that the release of the intercepted messages coincided with the attendance of thousands of Russians at Alexei Navalny’s funeral. Berger then defended the Chancellor's decision not to deliver Taurus to Ukraine: The Taurus is the Mercedes-Benz of long-range missiles and can reach Moscow from Ukraine.