Russia is ready to launch an offensive against a NATO country, Poland warns. Which countries are targeted by Putin?

Vladimir Putin is already preparing for a small operation against NATO’s border states in northeastern Europe as the alliance tries to deter aggression from Moscow while supporting Ukraine against the ongoing Russian invasion, Poland’s military counterintelligence chief has warned , according to newsweek.com.

“Putin is surely already preparing for a mini-operation against one of the Baltic countries“, the head of the Polish military counterintelligence, Jarosław Stróżyk, who was appointed to lead the Polish military counterintelligence service in March, told Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

According to him, the Russian president would be ready “to enter the famous border town of Narva”located along the Russian-Estonian border, “or land on one of the Swedish islands”.

“In the event of an attack on NATO, the Western response would be even greater”

The head of Poland’s military counterintelligence suggested that the Kremlin’s retaliatory aims were somewhat tempered by NATO’s response to its war against Ukraine.

“What the West is doing together to support Ukraine shows it that in the event of an attack on NATO, the Western response would be even greater”the intelligence chief said, according to Newsweek.

Much of the Russian military force usually deployed along NATO’s borders has been redeployed to Ukraine, where Moscow’s forces have suffered severe losses for relatively little gain.

According to repeated warnings from allied leaders, Russia plans to regenerate its military to threaten NATO’s borders while maintaining and expanding covert and hybrid operations.

NATO countries, meanwhile, are rushing to replenish their arsenals. Kiev’s Western partners have not been able to keep up with the demands of large-scale modern warfare, notably lacking sufficient artillery and air defense resources.

Domestic political currents have also limited support at times, perhaps most notably in the US, where a $61 billion funding package for Ukraine has been blocked for months in Washington, DC, amid some political disputes.