{"id":579195,"date":"2025-11-18T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579195\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:54:19","slug":"ww3-warning-as-europe-braced-for-armed-attack-pre-war-status-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579195\/","title":{"rendered":"WW3 warning as Europe braced for \u2018armed attack\u2019 – ‘pre-war status’ | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin is continuing to prepare for a potential future Russian war against NATO, experts say, as Europe fears an armed attack by Moscow. The European Commissioner for Defence and Space, Andrius Kubilius, said in a speech on Sunday that intelligence services, including from Germany<\/a>, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands, suggest that Putin could be ready to test Article 5 of NATO<\/a> – which states that an armed attack against one member is considered one against all members – during next two to four years, before 2030.<\/p>\n

He called an attack scenario “day X”, adding that Europe would “face the aggression of a Russian battle-tested army, which is now much stronger than it was back in February 2022, and is able to use millions of drones”. Saboteurs damaged at least two segments of a Polish railway on a route to Ukraine<\/a>, officials believe. Polish police said that a train conductor observed damage to a portion of the Lublin-Warsaw railway line near \u017byczyn on the morning of November 16, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) noted in its daily report on Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, confirmed on November 17 that the explosion destroyed portions of the Lublin-Warsaw railway line near Mika and Lublin.<\/p>\n

The ISW wrote: “Polish authorities have not attributed the explosions to a specific actor as of this writing… It is unclear whether this incident on the Warsaw\u2013Rzesz\u00f3w railway line is connected to the incidents on the Warsaw-Lublin line.<\/p>\n

“The Lublin-Warsaw and Warsaw\u2013Rzesz\u00f3w railway lines support Western military assistance deliveries to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“The rail line explosions come against the backdrop of Russia<\/a>\u2019s intensifying \u201cPhase Zero\u201d campaign to destabilise Europe, undermine NATO\u2019s cohesion, and set the political, informational, and psychological conditions for a potential future Russian war against NATO.”<\/p>\n

Chief of the Polish general staff, General Wies\u0142aw Kuku\u0142a, said the incident meant the region was in “pre-war status”.<\/p>\n

“The adversary has begun preparing for war,” he said, Rzeczpospolita<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

“They are building a certain environment here, which is intended to create favourable conditions for potential aggression on Polish territory.”<\/p>\n

General Kuku\u0142a added: “This is typical of 1939, but it actually preceded many armed conflicts, and also occurred at a time when these armed conflicts did not occur.<\/p>\n

“I emphasise once again: what matters most today is our attitude, our reaction.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin is continuing to prepare for a potential future Russian war against NATO, experts say, as Europe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,2821,332,333,26102,20727],"class_list":{"0":"post-579195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-nato","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-vladimir-putin","14":"tag-world-section","15":"tag-world-war-3"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115573166595500010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579195","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=579195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}