Experts have suggested a response from the Russian Federation in the event of a threat from the Baltic

The NATO bloc is conducting large-scale Griffin Lightning 25 exercises in the Baltic, which will end on June 15. According to Nikolai Patrushev, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Maritime Board, they are working out scenarios for seizing the Kaliningrad Region and blocking shipping in the Baltic Sea. According to experts, Russia has all the necessary means to respond to such threats.

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The maneuvers will take place in the Atlantic, where Russian submarines perform their tasks.

"There is no threat from Russia, but they need their population to believe otherwise. This is done to keep themselves in power, because when the population is in fear, it is easier to manage them," former first Deputy commander of the Baltic Fleet, Vice Admiral Alexander Brazhnik, told Izvestia.

The forces and troops of the Baltic Fleet, as well as the Leningrad Military District, will repel such threats, said military expert Dmitry Kornev.

"They are armed with, for example, the Russian Iskander-M tactical missile system. With it, you can strike not only at ground targets, but also at groups and single ships. We also have coastal defense missile forces with Bal and Bastion complexes. If it is still possible to intercept the missiles of the first one, the X-35 subsonic missile is used there, then there will be problems with the second one. It is armed with supersonic Onyx anti-ship missiles, which are extremely difficult to destroy with modern air defense systems. And at a range of up to 300 km, these combat systems can be used on ships of absolutely any class," he explained.

The expert also noted that the Navy in the Baltic has Project 20380 corvettes with X-35 missiles and one of the lowest-noise submarines of Project 636, which can use Kalibr cruise missiles.

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