EU officials travel to Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad - Senior European Union officials arrived in Russia's politically-sensitive Kaliningrad region yesterday amid fresh…

Kaliningrad - Senior European Union officials arrived in Russia's politically-sensitive Kaliningrad region yesterday amid fresh reports that Moscow has deployed nuclear arms to the Baltic enclave.

Russia dismissed a report by the Washington Times that US intelligence had now found the missiles, and Kaliningrad's Governor Vladimir Yegorov said it was an attempt to scuttle co-operation between the EU and Russia in the region. "When active talks between the EU and Russia started [the Americans] invented this devil with horns," he said.

The Russian Defence Minister, Mr Igor Sergeyev, earlier dismissed the new missile report as "absolute and complete nonsense". Interfax quoted him as saying: "It is difficult for me to comment on such fantasies, which have no foundation whatsoever."