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Germany’s chief of defence Carsten Breuer has said he sees a growing danger in Russia’s military build-up. “We are observing that the Russian army is being directed towards the West,” Breuer, officially the inspector general of the Bundeswehr, told the local newspaper Sächsische Zeitung. In five to eight years, he said that Moscow’s forces would be equipped with enough materiel and personnel so that an attack on NATO territory would be possible. He cited his own analyses, intelligence reports and statements from allied forces, as well as remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the basi…

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