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With NATO’s expansion, this may become Russia’s most strategic territory

By Jon Sweet
Published May 23, 2022 10:00am ET
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With NATO’s expansion, this may become Russia’s most strategic territory
Russian troops walk at a destroyed part of the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. | (AP Photo)

Forget about the 810-mile border Finland shares with Russia. NATO needs to be wary of Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast. It will soon become more problematic for NATO.

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