{"id":293177,"date":"2025-07-26T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293177\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:33:10","slug":"putin-preparing-to-invade-new-country-as-ww3-fears-soar-in-europe-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293177\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin ‘preparing to invade new country’ as WW3 fears soar in Europe | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Putin has his eyes on another European country, an expert suggests, as fears of further Russian aggression<\/a> grip the continent. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) stated in June<\/a> that the Kremlin has been setting “informational conditions to justify potential aggression against Moldova and the Baltic states” by using an alleged need to protect its “compatriots abroad”. Russia<\/a> also claims that these former Soviet countries are part of the “Russkiy Mir” – the idea of the “Russian world” abroad.<\/p>\n

This is the same narrative, specialists suggest, that Putin used to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a> in February 2022. In May, experts warned that Russian security services continued to conduct hybrid operations against the US and its allies “in preparation for a larger future war with NATO”. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with the intelligence services of Germany, Czechia, Poland, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, and the Netherlands, issued a cybersecurity advisory, stating that the Russian General Staff’s Main Directorate (GRU) has targeted the defence, transportation, and IT service verticals within NATO member states, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, another specialist has suggested that Russia<\/a> is casting its eyes over eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

“As a military intelligence analyst specialising in Putin\u2019s thinking and Russian military strategy, I agree with Rutte\u2019s assessment about Russia<\/a>\u2019s readiness for another offensive military campaign in just a few years,” Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler wrote in The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m less convinced that a NATO country is likely to be the Kremlin\u2019s next target, unless the alliance directly intervenes in Ukraine<\/a> by deploying troops onto the battlefield.<\/p>\n

“Nevertheless, what NATO does or doesn\u2019t do in the next few years could be highly significant in determining whether Putin decides to attack another post-Soviet state \u2013 such as Moldova.”<\/p>\n

The expert warns that Russia<\/a> envisions undermining NATO\u2019s “network-centric approach to war” by targeting the C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and space systems on which the organisation’s forces depend.<\/p>\n

Members states, therefore, need to do more than spend money, and instead better understand the alliance\u2019s vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

They also need to bear in mind that the Kremlin favours indirect methods of fighting its opponents, rather than the use of brute force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Putin has his eyes on another European country, an expert suggests, as fears of further Russian aggression grip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[299,2821,12,332,26,26102,20727],"class_list":{"0":"post-293177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-nato","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-world","13":"tag-world-section","14":"tag-world-war-3"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114919322681171008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}