The head of Germany's foreign intelligence service BND on Wednesday warned of increasing hybrid attacks by Russia on Germany and the NATO defence alliance, with the underlying goal of testing the alliance in the hopes that it would fail.

Russia may launch an attack on NATO territory in the coming years, Bruno Kahl, chief of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has said. Source: Zeit Online, citing Kahl at the German Council of Foreign Relations in Berlin,

According to Bruno Kahl, the head of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Russia might launch an attack on NATO territory in the coming years. Russia is "preparing for war with the West," Kahl asserted in Berlin.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has revoked accreditation of two employees of the German ARD broadcaster and ordered them to leave the country, in what it described as a retaliation to German authorities’ move targeting two journalists from Russia’s state TV.

Russia revoked the accreditation of two employees of the German ARD broadcaster and ordered them to leave the country.

Russia said on Wednesday that it would expel one correspondent and one cameraman from Germany's ARD in a symmetrical response to German moves against journalists from Russia's Channel One.