Russian officials slam the Baltic Strategy of NATO as “declaration of war”

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On Friday, Russian officials applauded in a NATO Deterrent plan that seeks to unite the ability to response to the alliance soil, and particularly worried the vulnerabilities posed by its very militarized exclave – Kaliningrad.
The warnings went from the corridors of the Kremlin when a civil servant warned that a deterrent strategy announced this week by the American commander of the army and Africa, General Christopher Donahue, was equivalent to “a plan to trigger the Second World War with a world case (and) without winners”.
“An attack on the Kaliningrad region will mean an attack on Russia, with all reprisal measures due, among other things, by its nuclear doctrine,” said Leonid Slutsky, president of the East 2 West Media.

General Commander, Europe of the American army and Africa, General Christopher Donahue, delivered a speech to the Royal United Conference Services Institute (Rusi), in Church House, Westminster on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (Images Lucy North / PA via Getty Images)
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Slutsky also claimed that NATO was a “threat to global security and stability” after Donahue, explaining that the new capacities are deployed by the American soldiers and NATO, said that the alliance had the capacity to “delete” Kaliningrad using ground operations “within a period that is not planned and faster than we do.” “”
The strategy, nicknamed the “deterrent line of the eastern flank” and announced on Wednesday by the American general to the association of the first conference of the American army in Wiesbaden, Germany, illustrates how NATO redesigned its defensive strategy against the main threat of the region – Russia.
The plan seeks to improve the soil capacities and to use military-industrial interoperability, in particular in the Baltic region, to effectively counter and eliminate the threat posed by Russia on the basis of the lessons learned from the war in Ukraine.
While Donahue did not directly threaten Kaliningrad, his comments highlight the vulnerability that the territory – which is located between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea and completely cut off from continental Russia – poses in Moscow.

Participants in a high intensity training session, seen at the end of the exercise in the Nowa Deba training ground on May 6, 2023, in Nowa Deba, Poland. (Artur Widak / Nurphoto via Getty Images)
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A renewed emphasis was brought to a band of little populated land known as Corridor Suwalki, also known as the Suwalki Gap, which travels less than 60 miles and marks the Lithuanian-Polish border.
But the strip of land is also the only possible direct route between the Russian territory of Kaliningrad and that of the ally towards Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bélarus.
“This is Putin’s ditch. This is our corridor,” said Peter Doran, expert in Russia and deputy member of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Peter Doran. “Putin wants to close it. We have to keep it open.
“All eyes of the Baltic States focus on a potential military threat in the coming years, by which Russia would reconnect the lands corridor in Kaliningrad,” said Doran. “This is what has paid attention to the posture of the military force of Russia in the Baltic region.”
Donahue’s comments concerning NATO’s increased capacities in the Baltic region not only did not go unnoticed by Russian leaders, but they highlighted the significant objective in Russian small territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) looks at a card with a new ferry road which will allow trains to travel between the exclave of Kaliningrad and the rest of Russia without crossing other countries, as they must when they have to move on the ground. (Konstantin Zavrazhin / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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“Kaliningrad is Russian territory, and these threats are essentially a declaration of war,” the East 2 West Oried Orient told The East 2.
Muratov said that a large -scale war with NATO would be a “different conversation” of the current war in Ukraine.
“None of them is ready for this,” he added.
Fox News Digital could not immediately reach US European command to comment.