NATO head Mark Rutte will on Monday call for a 'quantum leap' in defence capacities including a '400-percent increase' in air and missile defence which 'protects' the alliance against Russia.
'We see in Ukraine how Russia delivers terror from above, so we will strengthen the shield that protects our skies,' the NATO secretary general Rutte was to say in a speech to the Chatham House think-tank in London, according to comments released in a statement.
To maintain credible deterrence and defence, NATO needs 'a 400-percent increase in air and missile defence'.
'The fact is, we need a quantum leap in our collective defence,' he was to say.
'Wishful thinking will not keep us safe. We cannot dream away the danger. Hope is not a strategy. So NATO has to become a stronger, fairer and more lethal alliance.'
