NATO responses to Russian attacks will not always be public or tit-for-tat – Rutte

Rutte said this during a joint press conference with Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaūgas Sinkevičius at NATO headquarters in Brussels, according to Ukrinform. “When it comes to the word ‘hybrid,’ I have said many times that it sounds a bit soft and innocent. In the end, we are talking about gray-zone tactics: these can be drones, sabotage or even cyberattacks,” Rutte said. At the same time, he stressed that NATO has all the necessary response options on the table. “You will not always see them publicly. They will not always be symmetrical. It will not always be tit-for-tat, but we have the response options we need,” the secretary general said.