{"id":278215,"date":"2025-07-20T20:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278215\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:25:11","slug":"natos-plan-to-destroy-russian-enclave-thats-leaving-putins-henchmen-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278215\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO’s plan to destroy Russian enclave that’s leaving Putin’s henchmen | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NATO<\/a> commander has issued a stark warning that its forces could swiftly seize Russia<\/a>‘s Kaliningrad region “in a timeframe that is unheard of”. General Christopher Donahue, the head of US Army Europe and Africa, made the bold statement as the alliance unveiled a new Eastern Flank defence strategy<\/a> at the Association of the US Army’s LandEuro conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Donahue detailed the new Eastern Flank Deterrence Line, which aims to bolster ground-based capabilities, enhance cooperation, and ensure swift mobilisation in response to Russian threats. Addressing the issue of Kaliningrad specifically<\/a>, Donahue claimed modern allied capabilities could “take that down from the ground” with speed. He said: “We’ve already planned that and we’ve already developed it. The mass and momentum problem that Russia<\/a> poses to us… We’ve developed the capability to make sure that we can stop that mass and momentum problem.”<\/p>\n

Kaliningrad, a small oblast just 47 miles across, lies between NATO members Poland and Lithuania, and has been subject to intense militarisation by Russia<\/a> since the Soviet Union’s dissolution.<\/p>\n

Russian officials have issued stark warnings that any NATO strike on Kaliningrad would be seen as a direct attack on Russia<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n

Leonid Slutsky, the head of Russia<\/a>‘s parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, has even threatened “corresponding retaliatory measures, including the use of nuclear weapons”.<\/p>\n

He accused Donahue of expressing “a plan to unleash World War 3<\/a> with a subsequent global standoff [and] no winners”.<\/p>\n

Slutsky said: “An attack on the Kaliningrad region will mean an attack on Russia<\/a>, with all due retaliatory measures – stipulated, among other things, by its nuclear doctrine.”<\/p>\n

Once known as K\u00f6nigsberg and annexed by the Soviet Union post-World War II under the Potsdam Agreement, Kaliningrad now serves as a symbol of Russia<\/a>‘s strength within NATO’s borders.<\/p>\n

As one of Europe’s most heavily militarised areas, Kaliningrad is home to substantial Russian<\/a> military forces, advanced air defence systems, naval units, and reportedly nuclear-capable missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NATO commander has issued a stark warning that its forces could swiftly seize Russia‘s Kaliningrad region “in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[104880,91102,2821,12,332,104881,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-278215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-eastern-flank-deterrence-line","9":"tag-kaliningrad","10":"tag-nato","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russian-military-threats","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114887440730033880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}