Europe must adopt ‘wartime mindset’ to stop Putin, says Nato chief

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The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, has said that Vladimir Putin wants to “wipe Ukraine off the map” and could come after other parts of Europe next, as he urged Europeans to press their governments to increase defence spending. “It is time to shift to a wartime mindset,” Rutte told security experts and analysts at the Carnegie Europe thinktank in Brussels. He said people should gird themselves for the prospect that Russia might try to use “swarms of drones” in Europe as it has to deadly effect in Ukraine. Putin “is trying to crush our freedom and way of life”,...