Russia Issues NATO Nuclear Warning Amid Baltic Tensions
Russia said NATO blockade or strike plans for Kaliningrad could prompt a response using its entire arsenal, including nuclear weapons, according to a non-paper sent to the alliance.
- On Tuesday, Deividas Matulionis, national security aide to President Gitanas Nauseda, dismissed a new Russian threat to NATO countries concerning Kaliningrad as "completely baseless" psychological pressure, though Moscow warned that isolating the exclave could trigger nuclear retaliation.
- Moscow referenced Sky TV's documentary-drama 'The Wargame' and a British newspaper article to support claims that the West is "deliberately increasing the degree of confrontation" and modeling scenarios for separating Kaliningrad from Russia.
- NATO spokeswoman Allison Hart condemned the "irresponsible rhetoric concerning nuclear weapons," calling on Russia to end its war against Ukraine; Kaliningrad serves as the heavily militarized headquarters for Russia's Baltic Fleet between Lithuania and Poland.
- European leaders are considering new collective responses to Russian hybrid warfare after warnings of intensified non-conventional attacks, with Finland recently joining Denmark, Norway, and Sweden in the deterrence program.
- The European Union is discussing emergency security protocols to address hybrid attacks aimed at undermining unity, as Russia maintains more than 5,500 nuclear warheads according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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Moscow has warned NATO that it may use nuclear weapons if the alliance tries to cut off Kaliningrad from Russian territory.
NATO confirmed this Wednesday that the Russian authorities have sent a "document" in which...
The Moscow Times
Cyprus MailRussia Sends Nuclear Warning to NATO as Tensions Rise in the Baltic
Russia has warned NATO that it is willing to resort to the use of nuclear weapons if the Western military alliance tries to enforce a blockade of the Kaliningrad region, a Russian exclave bordering the Baltic Sea.
<p>NATO responded to Russia's nuclear threat through Kaliningrad Russia expressed a nuclear threat through Kaliningrad. The alliance called the rhetoric irresponsible and called for an end to the war.</p>
While Moscow feared a blockade of Kaliningrad's strategic enclave, the Kremlin raised the nuclear threat to NATO in the face of heightened border tensions.
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