BRUSSELS, Belgium: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday was due to urge a “400-percent increase” in the transatlantic alliance’s air and missile defense capacities in response to the threat from Russia. “We see in Ukraine how Russia delivers terror from above, so we will strengthen the shield that protects our skies. Our militaries also need thousands more armored vehicles and tanks, millions more artillery shells,” Rutte was due to say in a speech to the Chatham House think-tank in London, according to comments quoted in a statement.

“Il 5% non è una cifra inventata ma basata sui fatti”

BRUSSELS, Belgium: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday was due to urge a “400-percent increase” in the transatlantic alliance’s air and missile defense capacities in…

‘We see in Ukraine how Russia delivers terror from above, so we will strengthen the shield that protects our skies,’ says Mark Rutte.

Kiev, '20 missili e 479 droni russi sull'Ucraina'. La Polonia alza i caccia per un intenso attacco russo sull'ovest dell'Ucraina (ANSA)

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…

La Nato deve "aumentare del 400%" la sua capacità di difesa aerea e missilistica in risposta alla minaccia russa. (ANSA)

La Nato deve "aumentare del 400%" la sua capacità di difesa aerea e missilistica in risposta alla minaccia russa. (ANSA)

Mark Rutte to call for dramatic increase in military spending as threat from Russia ‘will not disappear even when war in Ukraine ends’

La Nato deve "aumentare del 400%" la sua capacità di difesa aerea e missilistica in risposta alla minaccia russa. (ANSA)

La Nato deve "aumentare del 400%" la sua capacità di difesa aerea e missilistica in risposta alla minaccia russa. (ANSA)

The head of Nato will today announce that the military alliance needs to increase air and missile defence spending by 400 per cent.

NATO allies are expected to be asked to pump up their defense spending when the organization's Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks in London Monday.

Mark Rutte’s demands for a huge increase in defence spending are a necessary evil, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

LONDON: NATO members need to increase their air and missile defenses by 400 percent to counter the threat from Russia, the head of the military alliance said Monday, warning that…

The NATO general secretary has called for a 400% increase in air and missile defence spending, claiming member states will need to “start learning Russian” otherwise. Mark Rutte…

“Learn to speak Russian,” the secretary-general of the alliance warned nations unwilling to make politically unpopular budget decisions.

Mark Rutte’s demands for a huge increase in defence spending are a necessary evil, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley