A secret report maps out how the new conflict would kick off
Germany is preparing for Vladimir Putin’s military to attack a NATO member in just a few weeks, it has been reported.
Soldiers have been preparing for a hybrid Russian attack on the alliance’s eastern flank, according to a leaked document from the German Ministry of Defence.
A source told BILD that an escalation between Moscow and the West could start as early as February.
Month by month, the secret report maps out how how the conflict would kick off.
It is said that Putin would order another wave of mobilisation, enlarging his army with an additional 200,000 people in the coming months.
By June, the Kremlin would have launched a spring offensive in Ukraine, pushing the Ukrainian army back.
German defence minister Boris Pistorius (front L) and Lieutenant Colonel, Ralf Georgi, commander tank grenadier Battalion 122, walk past soldiers as Pistorius pays his first visit to troops (Picture: AFP)
Russia’s at first covert and then increasingly overt attack on the West would begin in July, the government report said.
According to the scenario, this situation could escalate in October if the Russian president deploys troops and medium-range missiles to Kaliningrad, an exclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic Coast.
From December, an artificially induced ‘border conflict’ and deadly ‘clashes’ would engulf in the vicinity of the Suwalki Corridor, a barely 100-kilometre-long stretch of land between Russia’s ally Belarus and Kaliningrad.
Even a small attack on the area could cause huge problems for the West.
Taking advantage of a moment of weakness when the US may be without a leader for several weeks after the elections, Russia – with the support of Belarus – would repeat the 2014 invasion of Ukraine – but on NATO territory.
By the summer of 2025, the report claimed that hundreds of thousands of NATO soldiers could be deployed.
Russian foreign affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova dismissed the predictions as the kind you would find in a ‘horoscope’.
In a post on Telegram, she said: ‘I read the German “secret plan” leaked into the BILD information gutter.
‘It’s like a mighty horoscope from last year for Pisces in Cancer.’
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