Intelligence data show Russian military buildup on NATO Eastern flank

Article content There has been major expansion in recent months of military installations in Kaliningrad, the tiny Russian “exclave” sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, including an enlarged command centre, several huge new missile storage facilities and a reconstructed nuclear-weapons depot, an assertion backed up by other reports. A runway at an airfield in Kaliningrad was recently lengthened and is lined with fighter jets and supersonic bombers. Nearby is a storage facility for SS-27s, nuclear-armed inter-continental ballistic missiles. A photograph taken and posted by a cell-phone user – and published by other sites, too – shows a queue of truck-borne “Iskander”…