{"id":11113,"date":"2026-08-18T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/11113\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:12:09","slug":"russia-is-preparing-for-war-with-nato-the-main-intelligence-directorate-has-assessed-the-threat-ukrainian-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/11113\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Is Preparing for War with NATO \u2013 The Main Intelligence Directorate Has Assessed the Threat | Ukrainian News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            According to intelligence reports, Russia is preparing for war with Western countries by 2030    <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787044329_583_20260427142019-5584.jpg&#038;w=100&#038;h=100&#038;fit=cover&#038;a=right.webp\"  alt=\"Serhiy Malamura\" title=\"Serhiy Malamura\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liga.net\/en\/author\/sergei-malamura\" class=\"user__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serhiy Malamura<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News editor at LIGA.net<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787044329_323_20260613093049-2910.jpg\"  alt=\"The Main Intelligence Directorate assessed the Russian threat to NATO: Hybrid attacks usually precede military operations\" title=\"The Main Intelligence Directorate assessed the Russian threat to NATO: Hybrid attacks usually precede military operations\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>        The Russian Army (File photo: EPA)    <\/p>\n<p>The most realistic threats facing NATO countries right now are the so-called asymmetric threats from Russia\u2014that is, hybrid operations. At the same time, it is precisely these threats that usually precede military hostilities. Vadym Skibitsky, Deputy Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, spoke about this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine  .<\/p>\n<p>He noted that since spring, there has been an increase in incidents of Russian drones entering NATO territory, and these drones are now being shot down in Poland and Romania.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate noted that narratives discrediting Western weapons are spreading in the information sphere. Pro-Russian political movements are also gaining momentum in European countries..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are all hybrid measures being carried out by Russia. But if you look at theory and history, they usually precede military operations. In other words, this is one of the indicators that may point to preparations for a conflict,&#8221; Skibitsky noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Russia is preparing for war with NATO countries  by 2030. The same information is confirmed by intelligence from NATO countries.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, Western countries are increasing their military budgets, conducting exercises, and developing their defense-industrial complexes in preparation for a military conflict with Russia, using modern approaches.<\/p>\n<p>This is a machine translation of the original article in Ukrainian. It may contain errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to intelligence reports, Russia is preparing for war with Western countries by 2030 Serhiy Malamura News editor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[852,6708,7,6707,6709],"class_list":["post-11113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-hybrid-attack","tag-main-intelligence-directorate-of-the-ministry-of-defense","tag-nato","tag-vadym-skibitsky","tag-war-with-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113","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=11113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}