Putin warns West not to escalate, claims concerns about Russia’s Kaliningrad region

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the world was living through a dangerous moment and warned the West not to escalate a standoff ?over Ukraine by threatening the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which Moscow has made clear it would defend with nuclear weapons if necessary. Putin, who has said Russia had no choice but to launch its full-scale invasion of Ukraine to safeguard its security, said Russia had no plans to attack any European country and wanted to coexist peacefully. But he reiterated that Moscow would resort to all weapons in its arsenal, ?including nuclear ones, if its most…