German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to drag the North Atlantic Alliance into an armed conflict.
Her words are quoted by the publication Tagesspiegel.
“Putin intends to drag NATO into war,” Baerbock claims.
According to Baerbock, if Russia wins the Ukrainian conflict, “security in Europe and international order will be jeopardised.”
Earlier, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, the head of NATO’s military committee, said there was no indication that Russia was planning an attack on any of the North Atlantic alliance countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that statements about the possibility of a Russian attack on Poland or the Baltics are absolute nonsense.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko also called the reports about the republic’s plans to attack the West together with Russia utter rubbish.