Kaliningrad

Ukraine war: all eyes on Lithuania as sanctions close Russian land access to Kaliningrad

Ukraine war: all eyes on Lithuania as sanctions close Russian land access to Kaliningrad: Tensions between Russia and Nato, already stretched considerably by the invasion of Ukraine, have ratcheted up even further over Kaliningrad, a small piece of Russian territory sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic coast and cut off from mainland Russia. …

Kaliningrad: Russia’s ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ deep in Nato territory

Kaliningrad: Russia’s ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ deep in Nato territory: Aleksandr Podgorchuk/Kommersant/Sipa USA The Russian Baltic Fleet has announced that it carried out a series of simulated missile strikes of its nuclear-capable Iskander system. This is not the first time that the Russian exclave – roughly the size of Northern Ireland and wedged between Nato and …