Maybe Russia should recognize that EU has its own sphere of influence and Russia should respect it - so when is Russia going to demilitarize Kaliningrad, because having a military base so deep in EU is unacceptable?
When EU has the military might to stop Russian in Ukraine on its own.
However my point is that EU is bankrolling Ukraine and keeping it in the fight see 90 Billion EUR loan to Ukraine few days ago. Pretending that Russia does not need to negotiate with EU because EU does not have military branch yet is just being arrogant and stupid.
> so when is Russia going to demilitarize Kaliningrad, because having a military base so deep in EU is unacceptable?
Russia has been willing to demilitarise Kaliningrad, and only determined not to do so because of NATO's eastward expansion - "We want to demilitarize Kaliningrad, but (we) will have to deploy even more troops there once Poland becomes a member of NATO." - Aleksandr Shokhin (Russian Duma’s First-Deputy Chairman). (It also doesn't help when NATO members claim publicly that unless Kaliningrad is demilitarised, NATO cannot have dominance in that region ( https://www.sb.by/en/poland-demands-demilitarisation-of-kali... ) - that should really convince Putin to hurry up with the demilitarisation! In fact, after Sweden and Finland joined NATO too, Russia has expanded its military presence there greatly too ( https://news.err.ee/1609274853/lithuanian-intelligence-russi... ).