The secretary-general of NATO, Mark Rutte, urged Europe to strengthen its conventional defences and called for faster advances in drone and air defence technology during a lecture at Tallinn University of Technology, adding that NATO is facing no imminent miliary threat.
However, Rutte did warn that Russia was intensifying hybrid attacks across Europe and remained a long-term danger to the alliance.
“If there is a build-up, like there was before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, then we will see it and we will deal with it,” Rutte told students and researchers at Tallinn University of Technology, known as TalTech.
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