FILE PHOTO: The President of the German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) Bruno Kahl attends the opening ceremony of the new BND (Federal Intelligence Service) headquarter in Berlin, Germany, February 8, 2019. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt/File Photo

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,

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.

According to Bruno Kahl, the head of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Russia might launch an attack on NATO territory in the coming years. Russia is "preparing for war with the West," Kahl asserted in Berlin.

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

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,

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,