Russia will cause NATO to see unprecedented mayhem should alliance take Kaliningrad

Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, warned that any attempts to take the Kaliningrad enclave from Russia would cause NATO to experience mayhem. “Any attempt to seize Kaliningrad from us will end in a military confrontation with Russia. I don’t think NATO doesn’t understand this. Lithuania, Poland should think, because they are the first to seriously get into this mayhem,“ Vladimir Dzhabarov said. Dzhabarov hoped for a diplomatic settlement of the situation with transit to the Kaliningrad region. The European Union has already accepted exemptions from sanctions that allowed all goods to be transported through Lithuania. On June 27, former Latvian Interior Minister Maris Gulbis stated that the restrictions on transit to the Kaliningrad enclave signalled that Europe and NATO were ready to “take over” the region.