MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed a German general’s comments about the possibility of conflict between Moscow and Germany as baseless fear-mongering.

Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank told Reuters in an interview earlier this month that a Russian decision to attack a NATO member state would depend on the Western allies’ posture, but that Moscow had the “current capabilities and combat power” to “kick off a small-scale attack against NATO territory as early as tomorrow.”

Asked on Friday about broader comments Sollfrank was purported to have made about German preparations for a possible conflict with Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow had no plans to attack any NATO country, but was acting to ensure its own security at a

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