Rutte was wrong about the number of NATO founding countries

On November 27, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte failed for the first time to correctly name the number of countries that founded the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949.

"As far as I remember, there were 10 of them in 1949," he said during a press conference in Reykjavik, the speech was broadcast on the YouTube channel of the association.

At the same time, Rutte was corrected in the audience, stating that there were 12 founding countries of NATO. Rutte quickly corrected himself and agreed that the alliance was indeed founded by 12 countries, adds "Газета.Ru ".

On the "Cold winds": NATO increases the number of exercises near the borders with Russia

Large-scale naval maneuvers in Finland began immediately after the completion of artillery firing there.

On September 23, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, during a conference on ensuring the country's peace and security within the framework of the UN Security Council, confused English words and proposed to "strengthen the skis" of Ukraine instead of air defense systems. He later corrected himself.

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