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.

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 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,

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.