NATO Aware of Alleged Russian Plan to Invade Poland

NATO is aware of a secret Russian plan to undermine the alliance by staging a minor and short-lived invasion of Poland — one of the highest defence spending members — in a bid to neuter Western support for Ukraine, a report in Polish media claims. Russia could launch a limited attack on a major member of NATO calculated not to spiral into a full war but intended to persuade the alliance it is under so much peril it needs to divert weapons presently being donated to Ukraine back to their own defence.

Allegedly, the United States has already officially, behind closed doors, warned Poland “several” times about these “new Russian plans for a conventional attack on NATO’s eastern flank”. Nevertheless, the report states the purpose of this “limited-scale military provocation” is to push NATO nations — who presently fund Ukrainian weapons purchases or supply munitions out of their own stocks — into self-defence mode, where they feel unable to keep sending sophisticated weapons systems abroad.