State Duma deputy Andrei Kolesnik said that the military activity of NATO member countries is growing around the Kaliningrad region.
He noted that in the Polish city of Gdansk, 50 kilometres from the Kaliningrad region, tanks of the alliance were recorded. He pointed out that there is so much activity going on that ‘practically the clanking of tracks can be heard.’
‘And this is not the first time. There’s a huge troop movement going on in Poland right now. All this along Russia’s borders,’ he said in a comment to Lenta.ru.
He noted that all this activity is going exclusively towards Poland’s western borders.
‘To the west. To the west we are. We are west of Warsaw… Such a European military knot is being tied around the Kaliningrad region now,’ he emphasised.
Earlier, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda expressed his claims to the Russian region. He called Kaliningrad a historically Lithuanian city. According to Nauseda, the city should bear an appropriate name.
Aleksey Chepa, first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee, called Nauseda’s statement a provocation.
