A serious warning from the German general: the Russians are moving towards NATO

General Carsten Breuer said Russia poses a "very serious threat" to the Western defense bloc, the likes of which he has never seen in his 40-year military career.

The warning comes amid one of Ukraine's most daring attacks in which Russian bombers and equipment worth $7 billion were destroyed at two of Russia's most critical airports.

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Ukraine's security service, the SBU, claims to have destroyed "34 percent of strategic cruise missile carriers at the main airfields of the Russian Federation."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as something for the "history books", revealing that it took 18 months to plan the secret mission dubbed "Spider's Web".

He added that 117 drones were used - each with its own pilot - and that the headquarters of the operation was "right next to the FSB", the Russian security service.

Breuer, however, pointed to a massive increase in Russia's stockpile of weapons and ammunition, including a massive production of 1,500 main battle tanks each year, as well as four million rounds of 152 mm artillery ammunition produced in 2024 alone.

He said that not all of this additional military equipment is going to Ukraine, indicating a possible build-up of capabilities that could be used against the NATO bloc, adding that the Baltic states are at particularly high risk of attack.

"There is an intention and there is a stockpiling for a possible future attack on the Baltic NATO member states," he told the BBC.

According to his words, the analyst's assessment is that this attack could happen in 2029.

"So we have to be ready by 2029... If you ask me now, is that a guarantee that an attack will not happen before 2029? I would say no, it is not. So we have to be able to fight tonight," he said.

Breuer said the Suwałki Gap, a region bordering Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Belarus, is particularly vulnerable to Russian military activity.

Estonians, he said, gave the analogy of being close to a forest fire where they "feel the heat, see the flames and smell the smoke", while in Germany "you probably see a little smoke above the horizon, but not more".