NATO Secretary General says he stopped guessing what's ON putin's mind long ago

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he has stopped guessing what's on russian dictator vladimir putin's mind long ago, and looks at the facts. He called the fact that there is a dictator ready to sacrifice a million of his own people a fact.

He said this during a speech in Berlin, The Guardian reports.

Thus, Rutte spoke about his detailed negotiations with putin as a former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, in particular after the russian invasion of Crimea and the shooting down of passenger plane MH17, which was flying from Amsterdam.

"I called putin many times then, and later met with him at the G20 meetings on this issue, and I have long since stopped wondering what is in his head, and I look at the facts. The fact that you have a dictator who is ready to sacrifice 1.1 million of his own people... if you have a dictator who is ready to do this because he has a crazy idea about some historical goal... then you have to be very careful, and we have to be ready..." - the publication quotes.

Rutte added that readiness is extremely important if "you love the German language and do not want to speak russian".

"This is a necessary condition, because otherwise this man will not stop at Ukraine," he summed up.

Recall, Rutte also warned that NATO is the next target of the aggressor country of russia. According to him, many NATO member states underestimate the situation. They also mistakenly believe that time is on their side.