On Monday, Russia described NATO as a “tool of aggression”. It responded to the expected call of the Alliance Secretary General Mark Rutte to a 400 % increase in Member States spending on air defense. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
“The North Atlantic Alliance has discarded the mask and now openly demonstrates its nature of the instrument of aggression and confrontation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said to journalists about plans that Rutte seems to announce on Monday during a visit to London. “It is not a tool to maintain stability and safety on the continent. It is a tool for confrontation whose essence has been hidden until recently. Now revealed its true nature,” He delivered Peskov according to TASS.
It is expected that Mark Rutte in Britain will invite Member States to an extensive increase in air and missile defense funding to protect the Alliance from Russia. “We see how Russia spreads terror in Ukraine from above, so we will strengthen the shield that protects our heaven,” He seems to say in his speech Rutt based on statements published in a statement. NATO needs a “400 % increase in air and missile defense to maintain credible deterioration and defense,” added NATO chief According to AFP.
Rutte will also meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday. This will only happen a few weeks before the NATO summit, which will be held in the Hague of the Hague, Netherlands, from 24 to 25 June. US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth said last week in Brussels that the Allies are close to the agreement on investing five percent of GDP in defense, which could formally confirm at the Hague summit.
