Sikorski warns Russia may stage false flag to justify attack on NATO

Sikorski did not rule out that such a scenario could unfold in the next two years.

“I do not rule out that the Russians could organize some kind of false flag operation on Russian territory to get a pretext to strike one of the NATO countries,” Poland’s foreign minister said.

He stressed that the international community must make clear to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin that “we know what he is up to, that he will not fool us, that this would be absolutely unacceptable, and that we will defend every inch of NATO territory.”

On June 26, The Guardian, citing Western sources, wrote that Russia is preparing military provocations in the Baltic states or Poland amid growing pressure from long-range strikes by Ukraine’s Defense Forces on Russian cities.

Latvian intelligence said it sees signs that Russia is preparing military provocations against Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Poland. However, the newspaper’s sources said this would not be a full-scale invasion.

At the same time, Finnish President Alexander Stubb has said he believes Russia does not plan in the near future to test NATO’s Article 5 through a direct attack on alliance members.

On June 11, Lt. Gen. Christian Freuding, commander of the Bundeswehr Ground Forces, suggested that Russia could attack Germany by 2029.