According to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the alliance he heads allegedly has various options for countering Russia. He said this to journalists.
"We simply cannot always tell you what they are. So some of them will be public, and some will not," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Rutte clarified that this includes expanding support for Ukraine, and called on the organization's member states to do so.
Rutte's statement came against the backdrop of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump once again intensifying mediation efforts. In early September, its representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner came to the Kremlin for talks with Vladimir Putin, after which they headed to Kyiv to meet with Zelensky. Both the Russian and American sides called these contacts productive, allowing for the resumption of trilateral negotiations with the participation of the United States.
In recent years, Russia has noted unprecedented NATO activity near its western borders. The military bloc is expanding initiatives and calls this deterrence of aggression. The Kremlin has repeatedly emphasized that Moscow threatens no one, but will not leave without attention actions potentially dangerous to its interests.