The report of the Directorate General of the European Parliament on foreign policy affirms that Russia is trying to restructure European security procedures and to bring the crisis in relations with the EU into a "military area". According to the authors of the document, Russia uses the Kaliningrad region "to intimidate the Baltic states", and the Crimea - as a "bastion of opposition" on the Black Sea.

"The actions of the Kremlin in both regions contain signs of following similar political and tactical intentions. The main issue is the militarization of the Kaliningrad region and the Crimea as the central point of Russia's strategy to demonstrate its power capabilities to the NATO and EU countries, "the report's RT fragment says..

The EP recognizes the unlikelihood of a full-scale war in the Baltic and in the Black Sea region, but does not exclude the possibility of an "undesirable and uncontrolled escalation" of conflicts.

Strictly speaking, nothing fundamentally new report does not contain. The deployment of the Iskander in the Kaliningrad region in the EU reacted extremely nervously last year. At the same time, Moscow has repeatedly stressed that strengthening the western borders of the Russian Federation is an adequate response to the implementation of the EuroPRO system and the activation of NATO in the eastern direction.