{"id":335968,"date":"2026-09-25T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/russia-could-attack-a-nato-country-within-months-danish-intelligence-warns.html"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:30:21","slug":"russia-could-attack-a-nato-country-within-months-danish-intelligence-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/russia-could-attack-a-nato-country-within-months-danish-intelligence-warns.html","title":{"rendered":"Russia could attack a NATO country within months, Danish intelligence warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"MainContent\">\n<header class=\"ArticleHeader-articleHeader\" id=\"main-article-header\"><span>WATCH LIVE<\/span><\/header>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Danish intelligence officials have warned that Russia could launch a &#8220;limited&#8221; military attack against a NATO member in the coming months, saying the Kremlin appears more willing to take risks after more than <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">four-and-a-half years of war<\/a> against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) on Thursday <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">identified<\/a> a &#8220;low but growing risk&#8221; that Russia could carry out isolated strikes with long-range weapons on infrastructure that is critical to the support of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A limited military attack would be a desperate move on Russia&#8217;s part and, like the intensified hybrid attacks, could potentially take place in the coming months,&#8221; it wrote in a report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The purpose would be to redirect European resources away from supporting Ukraine and to sow division within NATO, should the alliance fail to agree on a collective response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DDIS added that it saw no indications that Russia would launch an outright invasion of a NATO country, although it said it could not rule this out.  <\/p>\n<p>Russia could also deploy a limited number of troops, possibly without national insignia, into NATO countries on its border, DDIS said. However, it said that such a build-up would be difficult to conceal and take several months to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>The new threat assessment joins a chorus of Russia warnings from top European <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">security officials<\/a> and <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">lawmakers<\/a> in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>NATO members that border Russia include Finland, Norway and Poland, as well as the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s government on Thursday said a blaze at a Starlink ground station in the country was an act of sabotage aimed at disrupting internet services, including for Ukraine&#8217;s military.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s deputy prime minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, said it had not yet been established who was responsible for the fire, but &#8220;many signs suggest this aligns with Russia&#8217;s new \u200cdoctrine \u2060of attack,&#8221; according to <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Reuters<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Russia&#8217;s Embassy in London was not immediately available to comment when contacted by CNBC. The Kremlin has previously denied involvement in similar incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark&#8217;s intelligence also warned that Russia will intensify its hybrid war by carrying out more attacks against the West and NATO, &#8220;with greater consequences for the targeted countries than in the past.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>These could include major cyberattacks that seriously damage vital societal functions as well as sabotage attacks with a high risk of casualties, DDIS said.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/25\/russia-ukraine-war-nato-denmark-putin.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH LIVE Danish intelligence officials have warned that Russia could launch a &#8220;limited&#8221; military attack against a NATO member in the coming months, saying the Kremlin appears more willing to take risks after more than four-and-a-half years of war against Ukraine. The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) on Thursday identified a &#8220;low but growing risk&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-335968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}