Germany warns Russia could attack NATO by 2029 as intelligence threat assessments mount

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul warned Tuesday that caller quality assessments amusement Moscow is preparing for the enactment of a aboriginal onslaught against a NATO member, marking it the 3rd clip this period that elder German officials person raised alarms astir a imaginable confrontation with Russia successful the adjacent 4 years.

"Putin eyes the EU and NATO. Our quality services are issuing urgent warnings: astatine the precise least, Russia is creating the enactment for itself to wage warfare against NATO by 2029. We person to deter further Russian aggression, unneurotic with our partners and allies," the authoritative German overseas ministry X relationship stated.

"These divisions, without a doubt, person their sights acceptable connected us, connected the European Union, connected NATO. The menace to our state from Russia is nary longer a distant concern; it is already a reality," helium said.

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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul warned, "Our quality services are telling america urgently that Russia is astatine slightest creating the enactment of a warfare against NATO by 2029 astatine the latest." Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua via Getty Images (Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua via Getty Images)

In an interrogation with Fox News Digital, retired Gen. Philip Breedlove, erstwhile NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said helium agreed with the severity of the German assessments. "I judge determination is simply a batch of information successful what the overseas curate is saying. Russia's intent for Eastern Europe is precise clear."

Breedlove noted that galore observers person forgotten Russia’s aboriginal signals earlier the full-scale invasion. "At the opening of this large-scale penetration phase, Russia gave america 2 documents. They telephone them treaties. We ne'er acknowledged them. We continued to telephone them documents… Essentially, Mr. Putin said, ‘Sign these oregon determination volition beryllium different means…’ And we did not motion them. And we learned what ‘or else’ meant. And helium came crashing into Ukraine for the 3rd time. First was successful Crimea. Second was successful the Donbas, and present the 3rd clip successful aggregate axes."

Breedlove said Putin’s ambitions widen acold beyond Ukraine. "If you work those 2 documents, if you really work them and I did aggregate times, his volition is for each of Eastern Europe… he’s going to rearrange the information architecture of Eastern Europe backmost to a Cold War presumption wherever helium controls each those buffer countries and has this buffer betwixt him and NATO."

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Russian soldiers thrust a motortruck during a rehearsal for the Victory Day subject parade astatine the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square successful St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Gen. Breedlove warned that Putin volition person to face the consequences of monolithic wartime losses, "The blimpish estimates are 1.1 to 1.5 cardinal people". (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Asked whether Russia could beryllium acceptable to effort specified a determination wrong 5 years, Breedlove said that depends connected however rapidly Moscow tin rebuild its degraded forces. "Ukraine has smashed his army, his service westbound of the Urals is profoundly damaged… Is helium capable to rebuild this army? Is helium capable to clasp the loyalty of the Russian radical who are soon going to larn that their sons and husbands are not coming home?" 

He warned that Putin volition person to face the consequences of monolithic wartime losses. "The blimpish estimates are 1.1 to 1.5 cardinal people… During the archetypal portion of this warfare much than 11 years ago, erstwhile radical didn't travel home, the moms of Moscow stood up. And I deliberation that Mr. Putin is going to person to look that yet."

The German overseas minister’s informing follows abstracted comments from Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that a warfare betwixt Russia and NATO "could statesman successful 2029," and that immoderate analysts judge it could hap arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2028. The remarks were reported by Meduza.

Top subject commanders person delivered akin assessments. Lt. Gen. Alexander Sollfrank, caput of Germany’s associated operations command, told Reuters that Russia could motorboat connected NATO territory "at immoderate time." He added that a larger battle could go imaginable by 2029 if rearmament continues.

TRUMP 'DRAMATICALLY' CHANGES TUNE ON UKRAINE BUT EXPERTS CAUTION PUTIN IS STILL WAITING FOR ACTION

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov astatine the Naval Base of Black Sea Fleet connected September 23, 2014 successful Novorossiysk, Russia. Putin is connected a one-day sojourn to caller Russian Military Naval Base of Black Sea Fleet successful Novorossiysk. (Photo by Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

The warnings travel arsenic the United States pushes guardant with a projected Russia-Ukraine bid deal. President Donald Trump said Tuesday helium volition not conscionable with Russian President Vladimir Putin oregon Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy until the statement is implicit oregon successful its last stage.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said "tremendous progress" had been made and that lone "a fewer remaining points of disagreement" stay successful the updated bid plan. A U.S. authoritative told Fox News Digital that Ukraine has agreed to the revised framework, portion Moscow is reviewing the latest changes.

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Ukrainian servicemen of the 44th artillery brigade occurrence a 2s22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions astatine the frontline successful the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. ((AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk))

The negotiations continued contempt a large overnight Russian onslaught connected Kyiv that killed astatine slightest 7 radical and damaged powerfulness infrastructure.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Bussey contributed to this report.