Russia is preparing to escalate attacks on Kyiv, including the center of the capital, after reportedly concluding that peace negotiations have “reached a dead end.”According to Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources close to the Kremlin, Moscow is also considering intensifying conventional ballistic missiles attacks on other infrastructure targets across Ukraine.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.According to the sources, all attempts at negotiations have effectively collapsed, leaving Ukraine and Russia back at square one.NATO involvementMoscow increasingly sees Ukrainian strikes as attacks by NATO, because alliance members are supplying Kyiv with weapons and intelligence, Bloomberg’s sources said.“The current stage of hostilities isn’t the peak of military escalation,” according to the sources.Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs said on June 6 that NATO must remain prepared for worst-case scenarios, describing Russia as dangerous and unpredictable and arguing that Russia’s next move was hard to predict.Meanwhile, EU countries on NATO’s eastern flank, including the Baltic states, are increasingly preparing for the possibility of Ukraine’s war spilling over onto their territory.Concerns have grown as drones have repeatedly violated the airspace of countries such as Romania, Poland, and Moldova, while Russia itself continues to prepare its youth for a conflict with NATO by 2030. Russian hybrid threats and cyberattacks have also increased in the past months.