00:00It is taking very seriously, and thank you for the question.
00:03And this is exactly why NATO is stepping up when it comes to hybrid, cyber, etc.
00:10And we have agreed on policies there to really be more effective in this area.
00:17I always hated the word hybrid because it sounds so cuddly,
00:20but hybrid is exactly this, jamming commercial airplanes with potentially disastrous effects,
00:27an assassination attempt on a big industrialist in one of NATO allied countries,
00:34attacking the national health service in the United Kingdom.
00:38So these are not cuddly, small incidents.
00:41These are huge incidents which have a huge impact.
00:45And that is also why when we found out about the cutting of the UNLCC cable between Estonia and Finland
00:55on the 25th of December last year that the Supreme Allied Commander launched his enhanced vigilance activity
01:03in the Baltic Sea, Baltic century, within 10 days.
01:06So I'm not saying that we have completely cracked this and solved this altogether.
01:11But to your question, I can assure you that we are working day and night to counter this,
01:17to prevent it, and to make sure that they will not do it again.
01:21The threat from the Russians is increasing every day.
01:25Let's not be naive about it.
01:27This might also involve one day Luxembourg, my country, the Netherlands.
01:32We are all safe now.
01:33We think we are far away from Russia.
01:35But we are very close by.
01:36And the latest Russian missile technology, for example, the difference now between Lithuania
01:44on the front line and Luxembourg, The Hague or Madrid is 5 to 10 minutes.
01:50That's the time it takes this missile to reach these parts of Europe.
01:53So we are all under direct threat from the Russians.
01:57We are all on the eastern flank now, whether you live in London or in Tallinn.
02:01There is no difference anymore.
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