On February 29, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya (Sputnik's parent media group), published the text and later audio of a conversation between four German military officers discussing a potential attack on the Crimean Bridge with the help of UK, US, and French troops present in Ukraine using long-range Taurus missiles. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the day after the leak that a thorough, intensive, and swift investigation was underway in connection with the leaked conversation.