In Kaliningrad among the soldiers of the Baltic fleet: “A Russian dagger in the European heart”

BALTIJSK (Kaliningrad) – Framed between a little girl who throws bread crumbs at the swans and a pensioner who hands a line to his grandson, the warships of the Russian Baltic Fleet stationed in the port of Baltijsk they don’t seem all that threatening. “Be careful to take pictures”, warns Ivan Privalov, a highly decorated colonel of the Omon special forces, now retired.