# US journalist’s proposal to demilitarize Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave is misguided, expert says

https://mins.news/en/item/125395

- TASS, 2026-11-02 11:57 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2211907

> Kaliningrad regional assembly speaker Andrey Kropotkin said the region’s security cannot be used as a bargaining chip in international negotiations. He was responding to a US publication’s proposal to make demilitarizing the region a condition for future Ukraine negotiations.