Event Brief
Kremlin calls Lithuania minister’s Kaliningrad remarks insanity
Filed: May 20, 2026 at 10:05 AM ET
Summary: The Kremlin criticized Lithuania’s foreign minister after he said NATO must show it can penetrate Kaliningrad.
WHO: Kremlin
WHAT: The Kremlin slammed Lithuania Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys’s comments as “verging on insanity.”
WHEN: May 20, 2026 at 9:29 AM ET
WHERE: Russia
WHY: The Kremlin reacted to Budrys’s remarks that NATO had to demonstrate it could penetrate the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
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