Rutte: “Latest generation Russian missiles can hit Rome 5 minutes after Tallinn”

And latest generation Russian missile takes “five minutes” longer to hit “Rome or Madrid” than it takes to hit one of the Baltic capitals. The secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, underlined this in Dublin, on the sidelines of the EPC summit.

“What I maintain throughout Europe – he states – is that, sometimes, the population, not the politicians, but the common people, perceive a sort of difference between the various countries, in particular compared to those on the eastern flank, such as Estonia, Poland and others”.

“The point I want to underline is simply this – he continues – the latest generation Russian missiles take five minutes longer to reach Dublin, Amsterdam, Madrid or Rome compared to the time needed to get to Tallinn or Vilnius”, he concludes.