The Russian Federation could potentially keep about 100 tactical nuclear warheads in the Kaliningrad region.
This assumption was made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radoslaw Sikorski at the conference on the restoration of Ukraine in Berlin.
— 250 km north of Warsaw is the Kaliningrad region, a Russian exclave with storage space for what we estimate to be around 100 tactical nuclear warheads. 250 km to the east is Belarus, where Russians and Belarusians staged an attack on the EU border, the border of the Schengen zone, – Sikorsky told how the Russian threat looks from Warsaw, emphasizing that it is closer than it might seem.
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In addition, Sikorsky recalled that sometimes the missiles fired by the Russian Federation into Ukraine fly into Polish territory, and sometimes land there.
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— One such rocket fell 10 km from my house in Western Poland, 250 km from here… So this danger is closer than some might think, — he noted.
Russia’s neighbors made statements back in the spring of 2022 that the Kremlin already had nuclear weapons in the Baltics.
In April, Sikorsky said that he saw no reason to worry about the possibility of the Russian Federation using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Recall that on May 21, the Russian Ministry of Defense began the first stage of exercises on the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons in response to allegedly provocative statements and threats of some Western officials against the Russian Federation. For his part, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin will not use nuclear weapons.
