Just across the water Russia has its own vital outpost - the exclave of Kaliningrad, with the Baltic state seen as on the frontline if war were to erupt. In January, Sweden's civil defence ...

"The Swedish Armed Forces have been clear in their ... 13 blocked projects to the "highly militarised" Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, had been ...

Russia's two outlets, at St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, will be increasingly isolated, only adding to the Kremlin's paranoia. Finland and Sweden are joining Nato because Russia invaded Ukraine.

Kaliningrad is on the Baltic Sea and uses a ... flexing its muscles ahead of next week's Nato summit in Madrid, where Sweden and Finland hope to get backing to join the Western defence alliance.

From 1946 until today on the map of Europe between Poland and Lithuania, there is the Russian protectorate of Kaliningrad. Facing the Baltic Sea and opposite Sweden, Kaliningrad is home to the ...