Rebecca Robinson
Russia has singled out four NATO member states it would retaliate against first in the event of an all-out conflict. Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), named Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as "the first to suffer".
He warned: "In the event of aggression by the North Atlantic Alliance against the Union State, the damage will be done, of course, to the entire NATO bloc. But to a greater extent, the first to suffer will be the carriers of such ideas among the political circles of Poland and the Baltic countries." Naryshkin slammed Poland and the Baltics for their "high aggressiveness" and "rattling their weapons".
He added: "It's sad they cannot understand that it is the increase in military activity near the borders of Russia and Belarus that has become one of the reasons for the current large, acute and very dangerous crisis on the European continent."
An attack on Poland or one of the Baltic nations, all members of NATO, would likely trigger Article 5 and drag the rest of the military alliance into a direct conflict with Russia. This, in turn, could spark a third global conflict.
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