Russia’s military will be in a position to launch an attack against NATO by the end of the decade, Germany’s foreign intelligence chief said.

Russia's acts of sabotage against Western targets may eventually prompt NATO to consider invoking the alliance's Article 5 mutual defence clause, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service said on Wednesday.

Russia's extensive use of hybrid measures against western targets increases the risk that NATO may eventually consider invoking the alliance's Article 5 mutual defence clause, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service said.

Russia may launch an attack on NATO territory in the coming years, Bruno Kahl, chief of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has said. Source: Zeit Online, citing Kahl at the German Council of Foreign Relations in Berlin,

The head of the German Federal Intelligence Service, Bruno Kahl, warns of a potential Russian attack on NATO. Russia "is preparing for war with the West," Kahl asserted in Berlin. During an event hosted by the German Council on Foreign Relations,

Speaking in Berlin, he described how Russia is ramping up hybrid attacks on Germany and NATO. These moves, he said, are part of a strategy to weaken trust within the alliance and test its limits. Kahl explained that Russian leaders,