# Could Russia’s Kaliningrad threats trigger a nuclear crisis with NATO?

https://mins.news/en/video/83873

- DW News, 2026-10-02 17:14 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p8S6XQVFOE

> Russia has warned that it could use nuclear weapons if NATO tries to isolate its Kaliningrad exclave. President Vladimir Putin said that any direct attack on Russian territory would immediately raise the prospect of using “all types of weapons” available to Moscow. Heavily militarized Kaliningrad lies between NATO members Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.

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