NATO Could Easily Cut It Off, and Putin Knows It. Why Kaliningrad Is Russia's Weak Spot

Aftonbladet

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Russia threatens NATO with nuclear weapons. Directly and not veiled. More important is the reason. The hysteria in the Kremlin focuses on Russia's weakest point – and our most difficult problem to handle.

Slobodna Dalmacija

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The center of Vladimir Putin's latest nuclear threat to Europe and Europeans has become Kaliningrad, a militarized Russian enclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, two NATO and European Union member states. The former capital of the Prussian emperors, and today the military port of Moscow, has been...

Deník N

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The Kremlin has been ratcheting up its rhetoric again. It fears the West could isolate the Kaliningrad exclave. We explain why this part of Europe is its weakness, but also an opportunity to hit back at the West.