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Admiral Rob Energy, chairman of NATO’s army committee, stated: “A cyber assault on a NATO nation could represent grounds for triggering Article 5 of the NATO Constitution.”
RIA Novosti quoted him as saying: “Not solely bodily assaults, however even cyber assaults can kind the premise for discussions on the activation of Article 5, and relying on the outcomes of the discussions, follow-up measures could also be applied.”
Earlier, NATO Secretary-Common Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO was ready to resort to Article 5 of the Washington Collective Protection Treaty to reply to large-scale cyber assaults.
It’s value noting that Article 5 of the NATO Constitution stipulates that the alliance has the duty to defend one among its member states from a collective assault, and every NATO member state has the duty to defend all territories belonging to all member states.
