Russia warns NATO: Attacking Kaliningrad will trigger a third world war

MOSCOW, July 18 (YPA) – Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the international affairs committee of the Russian State Duma, warned that any NATO attack on Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will trigger an adequate response from Russia, including measures stipulated by its nuclear doctrine.

Commenting on the statements of US Army Europe and Africa commander, Gen. Christopher Donahue, Slutsky told TASS that, “An attack on the Kaliningrad Region will mean an attack on Russia, with all due retaliatory measures, stipulated, among other things, by its nuclear doctrine. The US general should take this into account before making such statements.”

Slutsky described rhetoric about an attack on the Kaliningrad Region as “a plan to unleash World War Three with subsequent global standoff with no winners.”

Earlier, Defense News published a report including statements by Donahue, in which he said that is surrounded on all sides by NATO countries.

He also claimed that NATO forces now have the capability to “take that down from the ground in a timeframe that is unheard of and faster than we’ve ever been able to do.”

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