From 2029 Russia may be in a position to “launch a large-scale attack against NATO territory”, warns of the German Armed Forces.
The Director-General of the German Department of Military Purchases warned today that the National Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) have three years to acquire the necessary material to ensure the defense in the face of a possible attack from Russia in NATO territory.
“Everything needed to be fully prepared to defend the country must be purchased by 2028,” said Bundeswehr’s Federal Department of Equipment, Information and Support Technology, Annette Lehnigk-emden, in an interview with the Berlinense Tagesspiegel newspaper, quoted by AFP.
According to the French news agency, the German Armed Forces Inspector General, Carsten Breuer, recently stated that From 2029 Russia may be able to “launch a large -scale attack against NATO territory”the North Atlantic Alliance.
Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz has considered Bundeswehr’s rearmament, there is a long time -out and personnel deficit, one of his government’s priorities.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, which did not belong to NATO in February 2022, the war has cost tens of thousands of civil and military lives in both countries, according to several sources.