(MENAFN) Berlin has declared its readiness for a possible confrontation with Moscow and is set to support the movement of 800,000 NATO soldiers toward Russia’s frontier, according to Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank, who leads the nation’s joint operations command.

This potential deployment falls under Operations Plan Germany, a strategy unveiled last year.

The extensive, 1,000-page document outlines Germany’s course of action should Article 5 of the NATO treaty be activated in the event of hostilities with Moscow.

It envisions transforming Germany into a central logistics center for the transfer of hundreds of thousands of troops and military assets from different NATO member states against Russia.

The operation must be executed within 180 days from the outbreak of any conflict.

Lieutenant General Sollfrank indicated that this plan might be executed sooner than expected.

“Russia possesses a very large military potential despite the war in Ukraine,” he stated during an annual Bundeswehr conference in Berlin on Friday, emphasizing that “Russia is already capable of [launching] a limited attack on the NATO territory.”

In a conversation with a news agency on the same day, the general asserted that Moscow could strike “as early as tomorrow.”

German authorities have increasingly highlighted what they describe as the Russian threat, adopting a progressively confrontational attitude toward Moscow.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz previously remarked that the diplomatic avenues for ending the Ukraine conflict are “exhausted” and reiterated his government’s commitment to continuing arms supplies to Kiev.

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