GERMANY said on Saturday that it would be carrying out an investigation following the leak of an audio recording that exposed top German military officers plotting to blow up the Crimean bridge.

In the 38-minute audio recording, posted to social media by the head of Russia’s RT media channel, Margarita Simonyan, on Friday, senior officers discuss destroying the bridge which links Russia to Crimea.

Ms Simonyan wrote on the Telegram messaging app that the conversation took place on February 19 and one of the officers mentioned a planned trip to Ukraine on February 21 to co-ordinate strikes on Russian targets.