BERLIN (Reuters) - 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’s recent acts of sabotage against Western infrastructure may eventually prompt NATO to consider invoking its Article 5 mutual defense clause, according to Bruno Kahl, head of Germany's foreign intelligence service.

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.

German intelligence chief Bruno Kahl says that Moscow's acts of sabotage against Western targets could spur NATO to invoke Article 5 defence clause. #EuropeNews

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.

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,

The head of the German Federal Intelligence Service, Bruno Kahl, warns of a potential Russian attack on NATO. Russia "is preparing for war with the West," Kahl asserted in Berlin. During an event hosted by the German Council on Foreign Relations,

Speaking in Berlin, he described how Russia is ramping up hybrid attacks on Germany and NATO. These moves, he said, are part of a strategy to weaken trust within the alliance and test its limits. Kahl explained that Russian leaders,