MP Kolesnik called a nuclear strike the only way to protect Kaliningrad

The only way to protect Kaliningrad in the event of an attack by European states is to launch nuclear strikes on European capitals. This was announced on June 23 by Andrei Kolesnik, a member of the State Duma's defense committee.

"We have only one option to protect the Kaliningrad region — a nuclear strike on the capitals of the European Union. There are simply no other options, based on the geopolitical position of the Kaliningrad region. If there are a lot of drones, they will have to strike with tactical nuclear weapons first," he said in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

Kolesnik recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin had stated that Russia would use a strategic nuclear arsenal if there were "sideways glances" at Kaliningrad. The MP also stressed that the transition from tactical to strategic nuclear weapons today takes a few minutes.

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Mikhail Ulyanov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to International organizations in Vienna, on June 19, in an interview with Izvestia, ridiculed the statement of the head of the German Air Force, Holger Neumann, about his readiness to fight Russia. Prior to that, Neumann assured that Germany was ready to fight Russia "even tonight" if Moscow attacked a NATO ally.

On June 15, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called Neumann a neo-Nazi because of his words about NATO's plans to bomb Kaliningrad in the event of a conflict with the Russian Federation. The military man himself said on the same day that in the event of a conflict with Russia, Germany would defend every inch of NATO territory.