{"id":302700,"date":"2026-10-05T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=302700"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:29:26","slug":"germany-at-risk-of-violent-conflict-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/302700\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany at risk of violent conflict with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Germany is at risk of entering a violent conflict with Russia as Moscow steps up an increasingly aggressive &ldquo;shadow war&rdquo; against European democracies, the head of Germany&rsquo;s foreign intelligence service warned on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/germany-risk-violent-conflict-with-russia-intel-chief-says-2026-10-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The confrontation we are facing with Russia has taken on a new, more dangerous dimension,&rdquo; Martin &#8288;Jaeger, head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), told lawmakers at the annual public hearing of intelligence chiefs in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>German authorities have warned repeatedly that Russia is conducting a &#8288;hybrid campaign of drone and cyber attacks, accusing Moscow of being behind an attempted drone attack on Leipzig airport in August.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Germany is in danger of becoming embroiled in a violent conflict with Russia &ndash; the attempted attack in Leipzig is just one example,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has repeatedly denied any intention of &#8288;attacking NATO countries.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are not threatening anyone,&rdquo; Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. &ldquo;We have no intention of &#8288;attacking anyone &ndash; whether in 2029, 2030 or 2050 &ndash; but if we are subjected to aggression, we &#8288;will have no choice but to respond.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is at risk of entering a violent conflict with Russia as Moscow steps up an increasingly aggressive &ldquo;shadow war&rdquo; against European democracies, the head of Germany&rsquo;s foreign intelligence service warned on Monday, Reuters reports. &ldquo;The confrontation we are facing with Russia has taken on a new, more dangerous dimension,&rdquo; Martin &#8288;Jaeger, head of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":302683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302701,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302700\/revisions\/302701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}