{"id":26697,"date":"2026-08-07T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=26697"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:37:58","slug":"russia-nato-limited-incursion-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/world\/russia-nato-limited-incursion-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia may test NATO with a limited incursion this autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">Russia may carry out a limited invasion of one of the NATO countries as early as this autumn, without waiting for the war against Ukraine to end, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing new assessments by US intelligence. According to the publication, Moscow may be seeking to test whether the allies are prepared to activate the collective defence mechanism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The WSJ reported on the risk of a limited Russian incursion into a NATO country.<\/li>\n<li>The publication links this assessment to new intelligence from the US.<\/li>\n<li>Moscow is reportedly seeking to test its allies\u2019 readiness to defend a member state.<\/li>\n<li>NATO has nine multinational battle groups on its eastern flank.<\/li>\n<li>The US plans to increase its procurement and production of missiles and ammunition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The aim of the scenario is to test the allies\u2019 reaction<\/h2>\n<p>Pros. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/europe\/u-s-intel-finds-putin-could-test-natos-resolve-with-limited-incursion-e3b02e2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> According to the WSJ, the Kremlin may attempt to ascertain whether the Alliance will honour its collective defence commitments and whether its other members will enter the war to defend an ally. This is about testing NATO\u2019s political and military response, rather than a confirmed scenario of a large-scale war against the entire bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The publication also points out that the US has <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/main-news\/tramp-ne-pohodyvsia-300-raket-patriot-ukraini\/\">shortage of long-range missiles<\/a>, tactical missile systems and other weapons. This makes it difficult to prepare simultaneously to deter Russia in Europe and China in Asia.<\/p>\n<h2>NATO is strengthening its eastern flank and stepping up defence procurement<\/h2>\n<p>Nine multinational battle groups are deployed on the Alliance\u2019s eastern flank, which can be reinforced to brigade level if necessary. The Eastern Sentry mission, launched in September 2025, involves the use of aircraft, air defence systems, reconnaissance assets and frigates.<\/p>\n<p>At the July <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/politics\/samit-nato-tramp-evropejska-bezpeka\/\">summit<\/a> In Ankara, the allies reaffirmed their commitments under Article 5 and announced over $50 billion in new defence procurement. In its budget request for the 2026 financial year, the Pentagon has earmarked $6.5 billion for conventional and hypersonic munitions and nearly 2,000 long-range strike assets, as well as $2.5 billion to expand the production of missiles and munitions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to US intelligence assessments, Russia may carry out a limited incursion into a NATO country this autumn to test the allies\u2019 response.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433355,"featured_media":26696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u0417\u0430 \u043e\u0446\u0456\u043d\u043a\u043e\u044e \u0430\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0438\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0457 \u0440\u043e\u0437\u0432\u0456\u0434\u043a\u0438, \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0456\u044f \u0432\u043e\u0441\u0435\u043d\u0438 \u043c\u043e\u0436\u0435 \u043e\u0431\u043c\u0435\u0436\u0435\u043d\u043e \u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0433\u043d\u0443\u0442\u0438\u0441\u044f \u0434\u043e \u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438 \u041d\u0410\u0422\u041e, \u0449\u043e\u0431 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u0456\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0438 \u0440\u0435\u0430\u043a\u0446\u0456\u044e \u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0456\u0432.","rank_math_title":"WSJ \u043f\u0440\u043e \u043d\u0430\u043f\u0430\u0434 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0456\u0457 \u043d\u0430 \u041d\u0410\u0422\u041e: \u043c\u043e\u0436\u043b\u0438\u0432\u0435 \u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0433\u043d\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0432\u043e\u0441\u0435\u043d\u0438","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u041d\u0410\u0422\u041e","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805619],"tags":[806807],"class_list":["post-26697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26698,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697\/revisions\/26698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}