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

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.