“We must realize that the end of this war will not lead to normal relations with Russia,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying during a speech in Finland.

According to Stoltenberg, NATO members should increase defense spending, as security in a "more dangerous world" requires this.

Earlier, Chief of the General Staff of the French Armed Forces Thierry Burkhardt said that insufficient stocks of weapons are no longer acceptable for Western countries.

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Chepa, in an interview with RT, expressed the opinion that the defeat of Ukraine could threaten the collapse of the EU and NATO.