A report by the national defense committee of the Swedish parliament states that the possibility of Russia launching a military attack against Sweden cannot be ruled out, Swedish public television SVT reported yesterday Sunday, citing sources familiar with its contents.

Sweden is rushing to boost its defenses and applied to join NATO last year after Russia invaded Ukraine. Its admission process is however blocked at this stage by Turkey and Hungary.

The report, expected to be released today, says that while Russia’s ground forces are primarily engaged in the conflict in Ukraine, other types of attacks against Sweden cannot be ruled out, SVT said, citing sources who contributed to the report.

Moscow has “lowered the bar for the use of military force and is showing a great appetite for taking great political and military risk” and “the ability” of Russia “to conduct operations with air and naval forces, long-range weapons and nuclear weapons against Sweden remains unscathed,” the report said, according to Swedish public television.

The chairman of the commission did not immediately respond when asked by Reuters news agency for comment.

Always according to SVT’s sources, the text outlines Sweden’s new defense doctrine, based mainly on NATO membership, while in the past it was based on cooperation with other Nordic countries and the EU.

Like many other Western countries, Sweden had reduced its military spending after the end of the cold war, but from 2022 it is intensifying it and is expected to reach 2% of GDP, the limit agreed in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. in 2026.