{"id":157687,"date":"2025-07-20T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/russia-says-nato-threatens-wwiii-in-latest-deterrence-plan-that-could-take-down-kaliningrad-faster-than-ever-fox-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:04:54","slug":"russia-says-nato-threatens-wwiii-in-latest-deterrence-plan-that-could-take-down-kaliningrad-faster-than-ever-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/russia-says-nato-threatens-wwiii-in-latest-deterrence-plan-that-could-take-down-kaliningrad-faster-than-ever-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says NATO threatens WWIII in latest deterrence plan that could take down Kaliningrad \u2018faster than ever\u2019 – Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker joins the \u2018Brian Kilmeade Show\u2019 to discuss President Donald Trump\u2019s updated strategy for the Russia-Ukraine war and what it could mean for the path to peace.
Russian officials on Friday clapped back at a recently announced NATO<\/a> deterrence plan that looks to unite the alliance\u2019s ground response capabilities, and has Moscow particularly worried about the vulnerabilities posed by its highly militarized exclave \u2013 Kaliningrad.
Warnings rang out from the halls of the Kremlin<\/a> as one official warned that a deterrence strategy announced this week by U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander, Gen. Christopher Donahue, amounted to “a plan to unleash World War III with a subsequent global standoff [and] no winners.”
“An attack on the Kaliningrad region will mean an attack on Russia, with all due retaliatory measures stipulated, among other things, by its nuclear doctrine,” chairman of the Russian Parliamentary Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky told the East 2 West media outlet.
Commanding General, US Army Europe and Africa General Christopher Donahue delivers a speech to the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) conference, at Church House, Westminster on Wednesday June 18, 2025.\u00a0<\/span> (Lucy North\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/span>
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Slutsky further claimed that NATO poses a “threat to global security and stability” after Donahue, in explaining the new capabilities being rolled out by the U.S. and NATO militaries, said the alliance has the ability to “take down” Kaliningrad<\/a> using ground-based operations “in a timeframe that is unheard of and faster than we\u2019ve ever been able to do.”
The strategy, dubbed the “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line” and announced by the U.S. general on Wednesday at the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s inaugural LandEuro conference in Wiesbaden, Germany<\/a>, illustrates how NATO is rethinking its defensive strategy against the region\u2019s chief threat \u2013 Russia.
The plan looks to enhance ground-based capabilities and utilize military-industrial interoperability, specifically in the Baltic region, to effectively counter and eliminate the threat posed by Russia based on lessons learned from the war in Ukraine<\/a>.
While Donahue was not directly threatening Kaliningrad, his comments highlight the vulnerability that the territory \u2013 which is situated between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea and completely cut off from mainland Russia \u2013 poses to Moscow.
“There\u2019s absolutely no reason why that A2AD bubble, to deter Russia, we cannot take that down from the ground,” Donahue said in an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” Friday night, adding that it could be done “in a timeframe that is unheard of and faster then we\u2019ve been able to do.”
Participants of a high-intensity training session, seen at the end of the exercise at the Nowa Deba training ground on May 06, 2023 in Nowa Deba, Poland.<\/span> (Artur Widak\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/span>
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Renewed focus has been brought to a sparsely populated strip of land known as the Suwalki Corridor, also known as the Suwalki Gap, which runs less than 60 miles in length and marks the Lithuania-Polish border.  
But the strip of land is also the only possible direct route between the Russian territory of Kaliningrad and that of ally to Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>, Belarus. 
“It’s Putin’s gap. It’s our corridor,” Russia expert and adjunct senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Peter Doran, told Fox News Digital. “Putin wants to close it. We must keep it open. 
“All eyes in the Baltic States are focused on a potential military threat in the next few years, whereby Russia would reconnect the land corridor to Kaliningrad,” Doran highlighted. “That’s what has got a lot of people paying attention to Russia’s military force posture in the Baltic region.”
Donahue\u2019s comments regarding NATO\u2019s increased capabilities in the Baltic region<\/a> not only didn’t go unnoticed by Russian leadership, but they highlighted the significant focus there is on the small Russian territory. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin ((L) looks on a map with new ferry route that will allow trains to travel between the Kaliningrad exclave and the rest of Russia without traversing other countries, as they must when traveling by land, Russia RUSSIA – Sept. 10, 2006<\/span> (Konstantin ZAVRAZHIN\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/span>
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“Kaliningrad is Russian territory, and such threats are essentially a declaration of war,” Sergei Muratov, who serves on the Russian parliamentary committee on defense and security, told the East 2 West outlet. 
Muratov said a full-scale war with NATO would be a very “different conversation” to the current war in Ukraine.
“None of them are ready for this,” he added. 
Fox News Digital could not immediately reach U.S. European Command for comment.
Caitlin McFall is a Reporter at Fox News Digital covering Politics, U.S. and World news.
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