MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. Statements by Lithuanian Ambassador to Sweden Linas Linkevicius about the "neutralization" of Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad Region, while clearly aimed at boosting the Kiev regime, appear to be nothing but a farce, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik radio.
"Everyone understands that neither this particular person nor anyone else taking a similar position is competent or has the authority to make such statements," Zakharova said. "This is a weapon of information warfare, some sort of PR or hype. I think, most likely, the former."
She believes that Ukraine’s Western sponsors need this kind of hullabaloo "to bolster the Kiev regime’s morale and support it psychologically."
Such statements, however, as Zakharova pointed out, "largely appear to be a farce."
"But at the same time, in Ukraine, on the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, they (such pronouncements - TASS) sell like hotcakes," she stated.
Linkevicius, who previously served as Lithuania’s foreign minister, earlier threatened in a post on the X social network that the Kaliningrad Region would be "neutralized" if Russia were to "challenge" NATO given Sweden's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance, which has transformed the Baltic Sea into a "NATO lake," as various Western commentators have claimed.