An all-out war between Russia and the West would be decided by bloody fighting in the picturesque Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, American analysts say in a study that gives rare insight into how a new world war might play out.
The military journal Overt Defense published an article in late January describing how Russia’s westernmost province, home to half a million people, would become the site of a fierce stand-off if the country comes to blows with Western nations. It notes that Moscow stations tens of thousands of troops in the region, as well as battalions of Iskander short-range ballistic missile launchers capable of delivering nuclear payloads against cities in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
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