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

Germany's foreign intelligence chief warns that Russia's sabotage actions may lead NATO to invoke Article 5, mandating mutual defense. Moscow's hybrid warfare tactics and growing military potential pose increasing threats.

If it turns out that the mysterious cable failure in the Baltic was the result of sabotage, Finland does not rule out invoking Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. "If a state is behind it, it will be perceived as an attack on a democratically free society,

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'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.

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,