At the Munich Security Conference, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that Russia is suffering “insane losses” in Ukraine, losing about 65,000 soldiers in the past two months.
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Separately, at a media roundtable, he added that “the NATO alliance is strong enough that Russia is not trying to attack it right now,” Reuters reports.
“We will win every battle with Russia if they attack us now, and we must make sure that in two, four, six years it will be the same,” Rutte said.
Recall that the day before, the President of Ukraine and the NATO Secretary General, participating in a joint panel at the Munich Security Conference, were skeptical about Russia's current intentions to hold real negotiations and warned the West against making a mistake in their assessment.
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“Is Putin serious about this? He's sending this 'historian' to Geneva again to talk about how everything has been developing since the Swedes or something like that,” Rutte said in response to the fact that Vladimir Medinsky will be the head of the Russian delegation at the next trilateral talks.
We should add that the French president also sees no evidence that Russia is serious about concluding a peace agreement now.
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