Russian President Vladimir Putin could attempt to test NATO’s resolve with a limited attack on a member state within the next few years, US media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Outlets including the Wall Street Journal and CNN cited US intelligence reports suggesting possible scenarios ranging from a Russian cyberattack to a small-scale incursion into a NATO country.<\/p>\n
According to information from the Wall Street Journal, the United States previously assumed that Putin would not wish to provoke a NATO member while still waging war against Ukraine. However, the newspaper quoted US officials as saying that the assessment changed this year.<\/p>\n
The aim of a possible attack by Putin on a NATO country during the ongoing war in Ukraine would be to divide the alliance.<\/p>\n
The newspaper also cited the deployment of soldiers in unmarked uniforms to occupy territories as a possible scenario.<\/p>\n
The likelihood of this extreme scenario – an incursion into an area on NATO’s eastern flank – is low, but is increasing as time goes on, the newspaper wrote. The estimated timeframe for any potential attacks ranges from this autumn to 2029.<\/p>\n
According to information from CNN, it is most likely that any attack, whatever its nature, would target the Baltic states or Poland.<\/p>\n
The Lithuanian government recently announced that its own military intelligence has information suggesting Moscow might be considering attacks on critical infrastructure in the Baltic states using Ukrainian drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian President Vladimir Putin could attempt to test NATO’s resolve with a limited attack on a member state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5835,5128,7,2468,5834,185,437],"class_list":["post-10101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-joint-press-conference","tag-military-intelligence","tag-nato","tag-nato-member","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-the-wall-street-journal","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}