He stated that Russia allegedly would not attack the European NATO countries, quoting the propagandist of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler Joseph Goebbels, who attribute the idea that “the more incredibly, the faster they will turn into it.”
“This legend that Russia is going to attack Europe, on NATO countries, is the same incredible lie that the population of Western European countries is trying to make it to believe. Well, we understand that this is nonsense, you understand. Those who say it do not believe it themselves,” said Putin.
Before the invasion of Ukraine, Putin also discarded his probability, and called the preparations for him “hysteria” and “propaganda”. In December 2021 against the background extension of troops on the border With Ukraine The Russian Foreign Ministry distributed Russian draft contracts transferred to Washington with the United States and agreements with NATO on the so -called security guarantees.
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Over the past years, the political and military leadership of European countries has several times declared the threat of a Russian attack. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Russia can attack NATO in 2029. The threat from the Russian Federation declared and ex-Chancellor German Olaf Sholts. According to the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Norway, Eirik Christoffersen, to prepare for a probable war with Russia NATO has two or three years.
Bild, citing a secret document, informed that in NATO is preparing for the likely attack of Russia on the eastern flank. In the document “only for the official use of” the Ministry of Defense of Germany, it describes in detail the likely “path to the conflict” between the Russian Federation and NATO, the culmination of which will be the placement of hundreds of thousands of alliance soldiers and the inevitable beginning of the war in the summer of 2025.
On February 16, 2025, the Financial Times reported with reference to an anonymous Ukrainian official that Putin preparing for war against the Baltic countries.
On May 28, Reuters wrote that NATO wants to ask Germany for an additional 40 thousand military (seven brigades) for the defense of the North Atlantic Union. Also in September in Germany, large -scale military exercises are planned, the main thing Attention will focus on how quickly Hamburg can move 800 thousand military to the Baltic countries and Poland.
On June 2, British Prime Minister Cyrus Starmer announced the introduction of a large-scale defense reform of the Kingdom of Armed Forces, which provides, in particular, the expansion of the country's nuclear potential and readiness for war.
