Russian Iskander-M missile systems to be deployed in Kaliningrad region till 2018.

Iskander missile range.

Russian Iskander-M missile systems to be deployed in Kaliningrad region till 2018. (Tass).

Russian Ground Forces’ guided missile brigade stationed in the westernmost Kaliningrad region will be reequipped with the Iskander-M ballistic missile systems till 2018, Maj Gen Mikhail Matveyevsky, commander of the army’s missile forces and artillery, said on Saturday.

When asked by the Russian News Service radio station whether the brigade in the Kaliningrad region would be reequipped with the missile complexes, Matveyevsky replied: "There are no doubts about it."

"The Ground Forces’ guided missile brigades are being rearmed with this complex, according to the schedule," he said. Hmmm.....'Flexibility' seems only Russia is flexing their muscles.

Russia Will No Longer inform Lithuania About Kaliningrad Weaponry, Which Might Include Nukes.

Russia Will No Longer inform Lithuania About Kaliningrad Weaponry, Which Might Include Nukes. (Trumpet).

Moscow unilaterally suspended a deal on May 5, under which it had agreed to provide information to Lithuania about Russian weapons and armed forces in the region of Kaliningrad.

The agreement, established by Russia and Lithuania bilaterally in 2001, said the two nations would exchange information regarding their armed forces, and said each were free to conduct military inspections of the other. While it required Lithuania to disclose information about the entirety of its armaments, the deal said Russia was required only to share data about its armaments in Kaliningrad Oblast—the Russian enclave situated on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania. Kaliningrad is home to Moscow’s Baltic Sea fleet.

Now Russia says it is no longer willing to uphold its end of the agreement, which has fueled concerns among many in Lithuania and beyond. “The move is upsetting,” said Linas Linkevičius, Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs.

The suspension of the treaty is especially upsetting due to the possibility that Russia has nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad. In 2001, the United States infuriated Russia by announcing plans to put missile defense systems in Poland. Reports emerged saying Russia’s response to the announcement included the deployment of nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad—outside the range of the defense system.

Moscow denied the reports, but asserted it is under no legal obligation to keep nuclear weapons out of Kaliningrad, since it is, after all, Russia’s own territory.Read the full story here.

Amphibious warships Kaliningrad and Minsk of Russian Baltic fleet just entered in Black sea.

KALININGRAD

Amphibious warships Kaliningrad and Minsk of Russian Baltic fleet just entered in Black sea.(Cencornet).

Large landing ships of the Baltic Fleet sailed through the Bosporus Strait and entered the Black Sea.

On it informs edition imperialcommiss , transmits Tsenzor.NET citing BlackSeaNews . February 26, 2014 at 07:20 (Moscow time) large landing ship (BDK) Baltic Fleet pr.775 "Kaliningrad" Hull number 102, which belongs to 71 th Brigade BF amphibious ships of the Russian Navy, passed the Bosphorus towards the Black Sea. Source: http://censor.net.ua/p273134 Источник: http://censor.net.ua/p273134

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followed him with an interval of 20 minutes, at 07:40, the Bosphorus in the same direction was the second BF large landing ship of the Russian Navy, etc. 775 "Minsk", b / n 127. This ship also belongs to the 71 th Brigade BF landing ships of the Russian Navy, reports imperialcommiss. Information received from the Turkish security cameras located along the coastline of the Bosphorus Strait. Источник: http://censor.net.ua/p273134

Polish President Calls Cooperation with U.S. over Missile Defense ‘Mistake’.

Polish President Calls Cooperation with U.S. over Missile Defense ‘Mistake’.(RN).Poland needs its own missile defense shield while the agreement with the United States on the deployment of an anti-ballistic-missile defense system on its territory was “a mistake,” Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said in an interview with the Wprost magazine, published on Saturday. “We must have this element of the Polish defense [missile defense system]. Spending large sums on military hardware is actually meaningless if it is not secured from… the missile attack and air raids,” Komorowski said, adding that Polish shield must be a part of the existing European missile defense system. The president also said that the agreement to deploy the U.S. anti-ballistic-missile defense system on the Polish territory which was later scrapped by the U.S. President Barack Obama, has been “a political mistake” that should not be repeated in future.

“Our mistake was that while accepting the U.S. proposal, we have not taken into account a political risk related to the change of the U.S. president. We have paid a too high political price for that,” Komorowski told the magazine.

The United States scrapped plans in September of 2010 for an anti-ballistic-missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland. Moscow welcomed the move, and Russia’s then-President Dmitry Medvedev said later that Russia would drop plans to deploy Iskander-M tactical missiles in its Kaliningrad Region, which borders NATO members, Poland and Lithuania. Last year, however, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Washington's plans to deploy the U.S. new-generation ballistic missile defense interceptor site in Poland by 2018.Hmmmmm.......More "CHANGE".Read the full story here.

S-400 Missiles Deployed in Russia’s Baltic Fleet in the exclave of Kaliningrad.

S-400 Missiles Deployed in Russia’s Baltic Fleet near the exclave of Kaliningrad.(RN).Russia has deployed a battalion of S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems at a Baltic Fleet base in the exclave of Kaliningrad, the Izvestia daily reported on Monday. This is the third base to deploy an S-400 battalion.Air Force chief of staff Major General Viktor Bondarev said in mid-March that one S-400 battalion was currently being deployed at Nakhodka [Russia’s Far East], a second will be based near Moscow, and a third in the Air Force and Air Defense Force chief command. By 2020, Russia is to have 28 S-400 regiments, each comprised of two battalions, mainly in maritime and border areas. The S-400 Triumph long- to medium-range surface-to-air missile system can effectively engage any aerial target, including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise and ballistic missiles at up to 400 kilometers and an altitude of up to 30 kilometers. The Russian Defense Ministry has said there are no plans so far to export the S-400, which will be produced only for the Russian Armed Forces.Hmmmmm........Meanwhile America has a 'flexible' president.Read the full story here.