NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte issued a major warning to the members of the Western military alliance, saying Russia is "preparing for long-term confrontation." While some members of the ...

NATO head Mark Rutte warned the US-led transatlantic alliance on Thursday that it was not ready for the threats it would face from Russia in the coming years and called for a shift to a wartime ...

New NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Europe Thursday that Russia's Vladimir Putin wants to "wipe Ukraine off the map" and might come for other parts of Europe next. "It is time to shift to ...

Secretary general Mark Rutte said Moscow was "preparing for long ... much higher price later to fight it," he said. He added that Russia's economy was "on a war footing", with its defence spend ...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte expressed concern about the idea of conducting peace negotiations in the nearly three-year-long Russia-Ukraine war without Russian President Vladimir Putin “at ...

In a post on X, Rutte said that he had spoken to Finland ... Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) border with Russia, joined NATO in 2023, abandoning a decades-old policy of ...

BRUSSELS — NATO countries need to return to Cold War-era defense budgets to fend off Russia, Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Thursday. Speaking at his first public appearance in Brussels since ...

asking them to demand big increases in defense spending in the face of Russia’s aggression. Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s comments amount to the most forceful and direct call from a NATO ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte painted a grim picture of the world ... He issued stark warnings about Russia's alleged ambitions beyond Ukraine as well as China's own growing aggression.

BRUSSELS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - NATO head Mark Rutte warned the U.S.-led transatlantic alliance on Thursday that it was not ready for the threats it would face from Russia in the coming years and ...