The bloc has the means to destroy the military bases in Kaliningrad Region, Lithuania’s top diplomat has claimed
NATO should strike Russia’s Kaliningrad to make a point to Moscow, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys has said.
Kaliningrad Region is a Russian exclave of over a million people, which sits on the Baltic Sea coast and borders NATO member-states Lithuania to the north and Poland to the south.
In his interview with Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung on Monday, Budrys insisted that the Europeans “need to turn our fear of the [Russian] threat into a sense of self-empowerment.”
“We must show the Russians that we can penetrate their small fortress that they have built in Kaliningrad,” he said.
The minister claimed that “NATO has the means to raze the Russian air defense and missile bases there to the ground in an emergency.”
The Kremlin has repeatedly reject claims of them harboring aggressive plans against Europe as “nonsense,” saying that they are only being made by Western politicians to distract the public from domestic problems and justify increased military spending. A clash with NATO is only possible if Russia is attacked first, they said.
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