If there is a nerve center of tension between Russia and the West, it is undoubtedly based in Kaliningrad. It is a Russian exclave: that is, it is part of Russia but is physically separated from the rest of the country. It is surrounded by Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic Sea: an area known as the Suwalki corridor. We are talking about a narrow strip of land of about 60 km on the border bordered on one side by Belarus and on the other by Kaliningrad itself. And it is precisely there that the nuclear threat from Moscow that scares NATO can be felt. And it scares the Baltic branch of the Atlantic Alliance even more. And this is why he is calling for a sort of NATO nuclear shield. Moscow’s response came immediately: “The Russian army will adopt the necessary measures to guarantee national security if Poland hosts nuclear weapons”: this was announced by the Kremlin, as reported by Tass.
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Poland and NATO nuclear weapons
Poland today in fact said it was ready to host nuclear weapons if NATO decided to deploy them in front of Russia precisely to react to the strengthening of armaments implemented by Putin in Belarus and Kaliningrad. “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons within the framework of nuclear sharing on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready to do so,” Andrzej Duda explained to the popular Fakt newspaper. The Polish head of state, who is currently in Canada after a visit to the United States where he met former President Donald Trump and visited the UN, added that the issue of the potential deployment of nuclear weapons in Poland is the subject of discussions between Poland and the United States “for some time”.
The exercises with Lithuania
At his side there is also Lithuania which has long been raising alarms about the possible expansion into a direct conflict against Russia. Yesterday, together with Poland, military exercises began near the Suwalki corridor. The exercise, which also includes support troops from other NATO member countries, has been jointly planned for 2022 by the Polish and Lithuanian authorities and will involve around 1,500 soldiers and hundreds of mobile units. The objective is field coordination of defense in the Suwalki corridor. In recent days, Lithuania itself was considering a tightening of the rules regulating access to the border area with Kaliningrad. «We are thinking of limiting access to some segments of the border area. However, the rules should not limit the freedom of residents,” said the commander of the Lithuanian Border Guard, Rustamas Liubajevas. These days, Lithuania is also discussing the possibility of limiting for security reasons the number of entries into Lithuania for Russian and Belarusian citizens residing in the country.
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Tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus
In June 2023, Belarusian President Lukashenko announced that he had «received tactical nuclear weapons from Russia. Some of them are three times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.” News which was also immediately confirmed by Putin: «Russia has already positioned a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus», the words of the Russian president. Tactical nuclear weapons are in fact limited-sized nuclear warheads and delivery systems that aim to hit specific, non-widespread targets. Therefore, they can annihilate targets in a specific area without causing a large spread of radiation. However, this should not lead one to think that their power is limited. According to a BBC analysis, “the smallest nuclear weapons can be one kiloton or less, producing the equivalent of the output of a thousand tons of TNT. The largest can reach 100 kilotons. By comparison, the atomic bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima in 1945 was 15 kilotons.”
The Baltic jammer in Kaliningrad
Said of the strategic importance of Kaliningrad, due to its position and the presence of nuclear warheads overlooking the NATO countries, the Russian exclave in recent months has revealed itself as the base of the Russian Baltic jammer, the frequency jammer that for months it has expanded its frequency and scope. Today’s news was released by the British Air Force which reported over 45 thousand flights affected by interference in their navigation systems while they were flying over the Balkan area. “Russia is suspected of launching extremely dangerous electronic attacks against thousands of British tourist flights,” aviation sources said. The planes have suffered from severe GPS jamming, known as “spoofing”, which interferes with wireless communications systems and uses false signals to trick pilots into believing that the plane is in a different location than where it is located. where they actually are. The European Aviation Safety Agency warned in January that authorities had noticed a “sharp increase in jamming and spoofing attacks.” These interferences went on for months and one of these also involved the flight of British minister Grant Shapps. It is not accidental that such disturbances were revealed right above Kaliningrad. The first signs of numerous “electronic warfare” tests by Moscow date back several months ago when a sudden downturn in GPS signals was reported from Warsaw to Kaliningrad, right above the Suwalki corridor. According to a map of transmissions drawn by gpsjam.org in those days there would have been the highest level of interference right above Kaliningrad.
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