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Sh*ts derailed YO!
The Sovetsk-Kaliningrad train derailed near the village of Konstantinovka today. According to the regional government, at 08:21 a.m., a diesel engine ran over a household gas cylinder that was lying on the tracks. The wheels of the first carriage came off the rails, traditionally but no one was injured. Passengers (there were 207 people in total) say that they sat inside for about 10 minutes after the train stopped, and then began to go outside.

Russia revokes consent for the functioning of the Polish Consulate General in Kaliningrad.

The Commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF), Gen. Christopher T. Donahue stated recently that NATO has developed a plan to capture Russia's heavily-fortified exclave of Kaliningrad “in a timeframe that is unheard of” in case of a full-scale conflict with Russia. Planning for such an operation follows the implementation of a new allied strategy known as the “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line”, which focuses on bolstering land forces, integrating defense production, and deploying standardized digital systems and launch platforms for rapid battlefield coordination within NATO. Further speaking about the new strategy, General Donahue stated, “The land domain is not becoming less important, it's becoming more important. You can now take down anti-access, area-denial bubbles from the ground. You can now take over sea from the ground. All of those things we are watching happen in Ukraine.”

ArdiS kirjutas: ↑18 Juul, 2025 10:45 Huvitav oleks teada, kuidas seal elektrivõrgu saartalitlus toimib?

an2 kirjutas: ↑18 Juul, 2025 12:02

ArdiS kirjutas: ↑18 Juul, 2025 10:45 Huvitav oleks teada, kuidas seal elektrivõrgu saartalitlus toimib?

Nad on valmis. Neil on Pregolja Soojuselektrijaam ja Mayakovski, Talakhovskaya ning Pravdinskaya gaasielektrijaamad. Saavad hakkama.

Balti elektrisüsteemide eraldamiseks Venemaa võrgust lülitakse ükshaaval välja kõik üheksa elektriliini, mis seovad Balti riike Venemaa põhiterritooriumi ja Valgevenega. Erinevalt varasematest sarnastest katsetest lülitatakse seekord välja ka Leedu ja Venemaa Kaliningradi oblasti vahelised elektriliinid ning sarnaselt Balti riikidele töötab ka Kaliningradi elektrisüsteem katse ajal eraldi sagedusalana. Katse lõpus lülitakse liinid tagasi töösse.

ruger kirjutas: ↑17 Juul, 2025 22:54 USA Euroopa vägede juht mainis, et NATO-l on plaan Königsbergi kiirkorras üle võtmiseks

PaganHorde kirjutas: ↑19 Juul, 2025 11:47 Sealsed kohalikud vandid vast ise tahaks läände kuuluda.

Peeter kirjutas: ↑18 Juul, 2025 12:46 Nad on valmis. Neil on Pregolja Soojuselektrijaam ja Mayakovski, Talakhovskaya ning Pravdinskaya gaasielektrijaamad. Saavad hakkama.

The Russian authorities have been preparing for this for years, but despite heavy investment into new generating capacity, gas storage facilities and buying a LNG tanker dedicated to the region, the exclave remains heavily dependent on gas supplies that transit Lithuania, making it vulnerable to sanctions.

“Kaliningrad is now an energy island, meaning it must generate all its electricity independently,” Tomas Janeliūnas, the former Prime Minister of Lithuania, said in a post on social media. “There are no connections with Poland. And Lithuania? It’s no longer supplying or transferring power.”

Lithuania continues to transit natural gas to Kaliningrad, creating what Janeliūnas describes as a major “leverage point” over Russia. In 2023, Lithuania transited 2.3bn cubic metres (bcm) of gas to the exclave – equivalent to its entire annual consumption. “Kaliningrad still depends entirely on Lithuania's gas transit in day-to-day power plant operations,” he said.

Amongst the measures Russia took to improve Kaliningrad’s energy security were to double its gas-fired power capacity, constructing an €780mn gas storage facility with a capacity of approximately 800mn cubic metres, and acquiring the Marshal Vasilevsky tanker, a $300mn LNG terminal ship.

The LNG terminal could supply Kaliningrad’s full gas demand of up to 3.7 bcm per year, according to reports, but Janeliūnas points out that LNG is about four and half-times more expensive than the piped gas the enclave currently receives via Lithuania.

“If something happened to that pipeline in Lithuania… say, an accidental ‘anchor drop’ or a truck crash… Kaliningrad’s gas supply would be, let’s say – challenged,” says Janeliūnas.

“The Baltic synchronisation didn’t just cut off Russia’s grid,” Janeliūnas concluded. “It put Kaliningrad in a tight spot – where Lithuania may hold a key piece of the puzzle.”