Russia promises retaliation against attempts to blockade Kaliningrad

Moscow, May 28 (Prensa Latina) Russia warned that any attempt by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to blockade its Kaliningrad enclave will have serious consequences, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko asserted.

May 28, 2026
10:23

“Any attempt by NATO to blockade Kaliningrad will have serious consequences for the authors of such plans,” the high-ranking diplomat said in an interview with the RT television channel.

However, the deputy minister considered the likelihood of NATO seizing Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea surrounded by Lithuania and Poland, two member countries of the Euro-Atlantic military organization, to be nil.

In a recent interview with a Swiss newspaper, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys stated that NATO has the means to attack Russian military infrastructure in Kaliningrad.

Last January, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned NATO countries that any provocation against Kaliningrad would be “suicide.”

For his part, in December 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that any NATO threat against Kaliningrad could lead to a “large-scale armed confrontation.”

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