NATO presented a plan to repel a potential Russian attack. The strategy contains strikes on Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg

American General, Commander-in-Chief of NATO forces in Europe Alexus Grinkevich, on Monday, October 12, at an anti-Russian forum in Warsaw, presented a plan to repel a potential Russian attack on the alliance, calling it a “victory plan.”

According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the strategy envisages the creation of a vast “autonomous zone” where drones and ground robots could contain a possible Russian offensive in order to minimize losses among NATO personnel. At the same time, long-range missiles should strike Russian command posts and air defense facilities in the Kaliningrad region, in the St. Petersburg region and on the territory of Belarus, and aircraft should attack Russian reinforcements moving towards the front line, as well as attack other targets behind enemy lines.

It is clarified that the NATO “theory of victory” is based on the work of a retired general, former commander of US ground forces in Europe and commander-in-chief of NATO Ground Command, Chris Donahue. According to Grinkevich, the strategy was agreed upon by the alliance's 32 allies.

NATO assessed the likelihood of a Russian attack

At the same time, Grinkevich said that he considers it unlikely that Russia will attack NATO countries. He made a corresponding statement at a forum in Warsaw.

Earlier, the former head of NATO's political planning department, Michael Rühle, also called the scenario of a possible Russian attack on NATO countries unfounded. “Proponents of this scenario don't care much about logic. Why should [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, whose policy until now has been based on the desire to avoid direct conflict with the bloc, suddenly decide to go to war with an alliance of 32 states, including three nuclear powers?” - he noted. According to Rühle, this version is simply beneficial to the West.

Russia responded to the NATO plan

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia, Maria Zakharova, commented on NATO’s plan in the event of a possible attack by Moscow on the alliance countries. The diplomat described him in three words.