NATO Responds to Russian Warning Over Kaliningrad, Condemns ‘Irresponsible Nuclear Rhetoric’
- On Tuesday, the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom warned NATO that any blockade or attack on the Kaliningrad exclave would face military force, including potential nuclear retaliation.
- Reacting to British media coverage, the embassy cited a Paper article describing the exclave as Moscow's "Achilles' heel" as evidence of provocations intended to delegitimize its military posture.
- Kaliningrad, which separates from the rest of Russia, hosts around 12,000 troops from the 11th Army Corps, air defense systems, and a Baltic Fleet base while sitting between Poland and Lithuania.
- Warsaw would not escalate the incident if Moscow formally apologized, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski stated, while warning that Poland remained ready to defend its territory against deliberate threats.
- Previously, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko accused European countries of rehearsing a maritime blockade and seizure of the exclave during exercises led by the UK-backed Joint Expeditionary Force.
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No NATO exercise or action "is a threat to any part of Russia", highlighted the Alliance's press secretary.
Russia is ready to use all available means, including nuclear ones, to protect the Kaliningrad region from isolation, the Russian embassy in Ireland announced today.
NATO has condemned Russia's "irresponsible nuclear rhetoric", contained in a text sent by Moscow to alliance officials denouncing "provocations" against the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. "We strongly condemn the threat of resorting to (military) force, including any irresponsible nuclear rhetoric," said Alison Hart, confirming that NATO had received the document and responded to it.
Earlier, the Russian embassy in Brussels published on the X platform the content of the document, in which Russia expresses its "concern" about NATO's "provocative actions" regarding Kaliningrad.
The North Atlantic Alliance official, Allison Hart, rejected the concerns expressed by the Russian side about NATO action in the Kaliningrad region, and wrote the newspaper Figaro on Tuesday.
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