NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said relations with Russia should eventually be normalized once the fighting ends in Ukraine, while stressing the need to keep pressure on Moscow to ensure progress in ceasefire negotiations.

"It’s normal if the war would have stopped for Europe somehow, step by step, and also for the US, step by step, to restore normal relations with Russia," stated NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in an interview with Bloomberg TV.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has stated that relations with Russia should ultimately be normalised once the fighting in Ukraine comes to an end. Source: Rutte in an interview with Bloomberg, as reported by European Pravda Details: Rutte believes that it would be "normal" to,