NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the Alliance's new Strategic Concept, which will be discussed at the Alliance's summit in Madrid on Tuesday, should significantly strengthen the defense of the Baltic countries, reports the Financial Times..

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Responding to statements by Kallas, who said that the current NATO defense plans are not capable of preventing the “capture by Russian troops” of her republic, Stoltenberg said that the summit will take “big and important decisions to further strengthen collective defense, to protect every centimeter of NATO territory, as.

Stoltenberg noted that the new military plan, due to be agreed this week in Madrid, will radically improve the defense of NATO's eastern wing, shifting the focus from deterrence to full-fledged defense..

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" We have done it in the past and will do it in the future,"

Earlier it was reported that NATO promises assistance to the Baltic States and Ukraine, calls on Turkey to let the Scandinavian countries into the bloc. Talks between bloc leaders are contentious, but there is hope to agree more military aid to Ukraine and increase overall defense spending.