Major General Christian Freuding, Head of the Planning Staff and the Special Task Force for Ukraine at Germany's Federal Ministry of Defence, believes that Germany is currently the main target of Russia’s hybrid attacks due to its leading role in supporting Ukraine.

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, has issued a warning about a potential Russian attack on NATO. Russia is "preparing for war with the West," Kahl asserted in Berlin. The military confrontation appears to be an increasingly plausible option for the Kremlin,

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,

The head of Germany's foreign intelligence service BND on Wednesday warned of increasing hybrid attacks by Russia on Germany and the NATO defence alliance, with the underlying goal of testing the alliance in the hopes that it would fail.

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,