Russia has blasted recent comments by a top US general who boasted about NATO’s claimed ability to swiftly capture the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad if the military action is deemed necessary.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that “NATO is an instrument of confrontation, it is a bloc that is hostile towards our country” – in a press briefing. He was responding to prior words of General Christopher Donahue, the US Army Europe and Africa commander, who described provocatively that NATO could seize Kaliningrad “from the ground in a timeframe that is unheard of and faster than we’ve ever been able to do,” according to Defense News.