Russian officials hit a recently announced on Friday NATO Definitation plan that seems to be to unite the ground response capacities of the Alliance and Moscow has been particularly concerned about the vulnerabilities of the highly militized Exclave – Kaliningrad.
Warnings called from the corridors of the Kremlin, as a civil servant warned that a deterrent strategy was announced this week by US Army Europe and Africa commander Gen. Christopher Donahue, was a plan to unleash the Second World War with the next global distance [and] No winners. “
“An attack on the Kaliningrad region will mean an attack on Russia, with all the vengeful measures determined by the nuclear doctrine,” said chairman of the Russian parliamentary committee for international affairs Leonid Slutsky on the East 2 West Media Outlet.
Commander -General, US Army Europe and Africa General Christopher Donahue, will give a speech for the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) Conference in Church House, Westminster on Wednesday 18 June 2025. (Lucy North/PA images via Getty images)
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Slutsky also claimed that NATO is a “threat to global security and stability” after Donahue, by explaining the new possibilities that are rolled out by the US and NATO soldiers, said that the Alliance has the opportunity to “Down” Kalinfrad “in a time test” in a time test. “
The strategy, called the “Eastern Flank deterrent” and announced on Wednesday by the American general at the Association of the US Army’s Inaugural Landeuro conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, illustrates how NATO reconsider its defensive strategy against the main threat of the region – Russia.
The plan wants to improve and make use of military industrial interoperability on the land, especially in the Baltic region, to effectively combat and eliminate the threat of Russia on the basis of lessons from the war in Ukraine.
Although Donahue Kaliningrad did not immediately endangered, his comments emphasize the vulnerability that the territory is located between Poles and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea and is completely cut off from the mainland of Russia – poses to Moscow.
Participants in a training session with a high intensity, seen at the end of the exercise at the Nowa Deba Training Ground on 6 May 2023, in Nowa Deba, Poland. (Artur Widak/Nurphoto via Getty images)
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Renewed focus has been brought on a sparsely populated land known as the Suwalki gang, also known as the Suwalki gorge, which runs less than 60 miles and marks the Lithuanian-Polish border.
But the strip of land is also the only possible direct route between the Russian territory of Kaliningrad and that of ally to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Wit -Russia.
“All eyes in the Baltic States are aimed at a potential military threat in the coming years, where Russia would re -connect the Landcorridor with Kaliningrad,” emphasized Doran. “That is what has led to many people paying attention to the Russian military strength attitude in the Baltic region.”
Donahue’s comments about the raised capacities of NATO in the Baltic region not only did not go unnoticed by Russian leadership, but they emphasized the important focus there in the small Russian area.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ((L) looks on a map with a new ferry route with which trains can travel between the Kaliningrad Exclave and the rest of Russia without crossing other countries, as they have to travel across the country. (Konstantin Zavrazhin/Gamma-Rapho via Getty images)
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“Kaliningrad is Russian territory, and such threats are essentially a declaration of war,” said Sergei Muratov, who is a member of the Russian parliamentary Committee for Defense and Security, at the East 2 West Outlet.
Muratov said that a full war with NATO would be a whole “different conversation” than the current war in Ukraine.
“None of them is ready for this,” he added.
