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 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.

The United States sent two bombers to simulate the release of weapons over NATO ally Finland on Monday after Russia used a new hypersonic missile on Ukraine. The B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers,

Two American B-52 strategic bombers were intercepted by Russian Su-27 fighters on Monday over the Baltic Sea, near the Kaliningrad region. The aircraft were participating in exercises with the Finnish Air Force.