Europe is preparing for Russian President Vladimir Putin to expand his country’s war in Ukraine and attack a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ally next year, leaked documents published in German newspaper Bild revealed. Multiple alarming scenarios could play out within a year, according to the documentation.

One such scenario, dubbed “Alliance Defense 2025,” would start this February with Russia mobilizing an additional 200,000 soldiers.

Emboldened by Western financial support for Ukraine drying up, Russia would launch a massive “spring offensive” against Ukrainian armed forces.

The potential scenario outlines how Russia could start waging war in the Baltics by July using “severe cyberattacks” while stirring up discontent among Russian nationals in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

By September, those clashes, the classified documents show, could be used by Russia as an excuse to unleash “Zapad 2024,” a large-scale military “exercise” that would amass some 50,000 Russian soldiers in the west of the country and Belarus. –The New York Post

Leaked documents from the Germany Ministry of Defense

Russia could then move troops and mid-range missiles to Kaliningrad, an 86-square-mile Russian territory wedged between Lithuania and Poland, which are both NATO members. According to the documents, Russia could bombard the region with propaganda warning of an imminent attack by NATO forces, with the ultimate goal of conquering an area known as the Suwalki Gap, a narrow Polish-Lithuanian corridor that lies between Belarus and Kaliningrad.

For a complete breakdown of the Bild’s scenario, please click here. 

Even though this is just one potential scenario outlined by the German army, European allies are taking these possibilities seriously and preparing for a global war with Russia.

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