Russia’s hybrid warfare could push Nato to trigger its mutual defence clause, according to the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service. Moscow is not in direct conflict with the West right now but that could change if Russia continues its acts of sabotage.

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,