Senator Kosachev barely restrained himself on the air because of Lithuania's statement about Kaliningrad

The statement by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budris about a possible NATO attack on Kaliningrad is so odious and unacceptable for the country's official representative that it provokes a personal attack, said Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.

Earlier, Budris, in an interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung, said that NATO should show Russia the ability to "penetrate into a small fortress that the Russians have built in Kaliningrad," and that the alliance has the means to destroy Russian bases in the exclave.

"The statement is so odious, so unacceptable that it provokes you to immediately get personal, but I will try to refrain from this reception on our air," Kosachev said on Vesti.

As Kosachev noted, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania is an official and cannot express a personal point of view, acting as a statesman.

"Moreover, he represents not only his ministry, he represents his state. In addition, it also represents the integration structures that this state is part of, in this case NATO and the European Union. As a matter of fact, he is trying to speak on behalf of NATO," the senator said.