The strengthening of Russia of the land protection of the Kaliningrad region puts NATO in front of the “fatal dilemma”, declares the pages of the American magazine The National Interest Observer Sebastien Roblin, justifying, in particular, the potential necessity of “physical occupation” of the Russian region.
According to the publication, the increase in the presence of the Russian military in the region “creates serious operating dilemmas for the Alliance in the event of a conflict,” because the rocket fire from the Kaliningrad region will prevent “the movement of air, marine and land forces [NATO] through Poland and the Baltic Sea”.
“The scale of these threats means that NATO will be forced to send significant funds to their neutralization – either by containing the Kaliningrad garrison and suppressing mobile missile systems, artillery, airplanes, sensors and systems of the radio-electronic struggle inside the exclave, or alternately guiding the troops on its siege and physical occupation, “- the publication says.
among the weapons, which, as confident in the magazine, may pose a threat to the alliance, are called, in particular, diesel-electric submarines, rocket and anti-submarine Corvettes and large landing ships, as well as operational-tactical missile systems (PCC) ” Iskander-M, anti-workers missile systems (PKRK) “Ball” and “Bastion-P”, air defense systems (air defense) S-300 “Favorite”, S-400 “Triumph” and “Poles-C1”, coastal missile systems (BRC) “Bastion”, SU-24M bombers, Su-27 and C-30cm fighters, Ka-27m helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (CAP) “outpost”.
In February, Izvestia, referring to sources in the Ministry of Defense of Russia, reported that on the basis of the 79th separate motorized rifle brigade it is planned to form a regiment that will strengthen the land protection of the Kaliningrad region. The deployment site of this shelf was called the city of Soviet. According to the newspaper, the regiment together with a number of other parts will be included in the motorized rifle division. According to the military historian Dmitry Bolynkov, “in the end, they will do that part of the Russian troops will be focused on Poland, and the other – on Lithuania.”