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Hypersonic missiles in Kaliningrad: "We are in a logic of strengthening deterrence"

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Trains leave in the direction of Kaliningrad and depart from the Russian enclave, near the Kybertai border railway station, Lithuania, June 21, 2022. © Ints Kalnins / Reuters

By: Florent Guignard Follow

Russia announced on Thursday that it deployed planes equipped with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave surrounded by NATO countries where the conflict in Ukraine has exacerbated tensions.

According to Nicolas Gosset, a researcher at the Royal Higher Institute for Defense in Brussels, the deployment of these missiles in an already highly militarized territory is “ 

a beginning of new forms of arms race on the European continent

 ”.

  • Russia

  • Ukraine

  • European Union

  • Defense