Kremlin Responds to U.S. General's Threat to 'Wipe Kaliningrad Off the Map'

The Kremlin has strongly condemned remarks made by General Christopher Donahue, Commander of the United States Army in Europe and Africa, who threatened to wipe Kaliningrad off the map. According to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, this statement is “yet another in a series of hostile and aggressive declarations” frequently voiced by officials from European defense ministries. He emphasized that such comments are taken into account in Moscow’s ongoing dialogue with Washington. “NATO is an instrument of confrontation, a bloc hostile toward our country. This forces us to take all of this into account and adopt appropriate measures to ensure our own security,” Peskov stated. The controversial remarks were made during the LandEuro Conference hosted by the U.S. Army Association in Wiesbaden, Germany. There, General Donahue asserted that the North Atlantic Alliance possesses the capabilities to completely eliminate the Kaliningrad region and has already devised an operational plan to neutralize Russia’s defensive infrastructure in the area.