Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants long-term ...

According to Rutte, NATO allies are not yet doing enough to counter this. "We have to ramp up defence production, the defence industrial base," he said. "They have to put in extra production lines ...

“Russia is preparing for long-term confrontation, with Ukraine and with us,” Rutte said in a speech in Brussels on Thursday. “We are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years,” the ...

He has long criticised the scale of U.S. financial and military aid to Ukraine. The headquarters of NATO's new Ukraine mission, dubbed NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU), is ...

We should be profoundly concerned. I know I am,” he said. “Russia is preparing for long-term confrontation. With Ukraine, and with us.” Rutte’s inaugural speech came just over two months after he took ...

NATO members may increase their defense spending to 3% of GDP, in part due to pressure by President-elect Donald Trump. Three people involved in the preliminary talks told the Financial Times that ...

"Russia is preparing for long-term confrontation. With Ukraine, and with us." Rutte emphasised that Russia's military expenditure might reach 7 to 8% of its GDP next year, surpassing any NATO ally ...

NATO's secretary-general warned Thursday that ... In a speech Thursday in Brussels, Mark Rutte said Russia was "preparing for long-term confrontation, with Ukraine and with us.” ...