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Putin threatens: If Kaliningrad is blocked, there will be an unprecedented escalation!
2025-12-19 20:57:16 / BOTA
Any attempt to blockade Kaliningrad on the Baltic coast would cause an "unprecedented escalation" and could escalate into a full-scale armed conflict, President Vladimir Putin warned.
The Russian leader made the comments on Friday during his traditional year-end question-and-answer session, when asked how Moscow would react if European states sought to impose a blockade on the country's westernmost region, an enclave bordered by NATO members Lithuania and Poland.
Putin said he hoped such a scenario would not happen, adding: "If they create threats of this kind, we will eliminate those threats."
"Everyone must understand and be aware that actions of this kind will simply lead to an escalation unprecedented to date... taking it to a completely different level... up to a full-scale armed conflict," he added.
Russian officials have repeatedly warned against any steps that could cut off the enclave from the land. Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko has previously said he hoped that “common sense” in Europe would prevent “playing with fire” over Kaliningrad.
Some Western leaders, particularly from Poland and the Baltic states, have previously called for attacks on Kaliningrad in the event of a conflict between Moscow and NATO. Moscow maintains that it poses no threat to the EU or the US-led military bloc and has described such statements as evidence of hostile intent.
Located between Lithuania and Poland, Kaliningrad relies on rail and road links through Lithuanian territory to connect to the rest of Russia. Transit tensions flared after the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine in 2022, when Vilnius began restricting rail transit of goods subject to EU sanctions to and from Kaliningrad. The dispute was later partially resolved and rail traffic was restored.
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