Of course we (the West, NATO) have to allow Russia some special considerations about crossing the territory of other countries because they have a state so to speak, an Oblast, a territory, that clearly & unquestionably definitely belongs to Russia which was given to Russia (well, the USSR) by all of the western Allied powers following World War II.
THE COMPLICATING FACTOR is it's physically located 200 miles away from what is now the Russian Federation border. And while this Russian territory used to be surrounded by either Soviet states or pro-Soviet eastern bloc nations,
it is now surrounded by NATO countries aligned with the West.
Kaliningrad, oblast (region), extreme western Russia. Most of the oblast is in the basin of the Pregolya River and its tributaries. Centred on Kaliningrad city, it was formed in 1945 from the northern half of German East Prussia, which was ceded to the U.S.S.R. by the Potsdam agreement of that year. Administratively, the oblast was made part of the Russian S.F.S.R., even though it was separated from the parent republic by about 225 miles (360 km) of territory belonging to the Lithuanian, Belorussian, and Latvian republics
THE COMPLICATING FACTOR is it's physically located 200 miles away from what is now the Russian Federation border. And while this Russian territory used to be surrounded by either Soviet states or pro-Soviet eastern bloc nations,
it is now surrounded by NATO countries aligned with the West.
Kaliningrad, oblast (region), extreme western Russia. Most of the oblast is in the basin of the Pregolya River and its tributaries. Centred on Kaliningrad city, it was formed in 1945 from the northern half of German East Prussia, which was ceded to the U.S.S.R. by the Potsdam agreement of that year. Administratively, the oblast was made part of the Russian S.F.S.R., even though it was separated from the parent republic by about 225 miles (360 km) of territory belonging to the Lithuanian, Belorussian, and Latvian republics
