{"id":18892,"date":"2018-10-18T01:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18892"},"modified":"2018-10-18T01:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T01:23:43","slug":"new-satellite-images-suggest-military-buildup-in-russias-strategic-baltic-enclave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18892","title":{"rendered":"New satellite images suggest military buildup in Russia&#8217;s strategic Baltic enclave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Reykjavik, Iceland (CNN)<\/cite>New satellite imagery shared exclusively with CNN shows Russia appearing to upgrade four of its military installations in Kaliningrad, Russia&#8217;s strategic outpost on NATO&#8217;s doorstep.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Kaliningrad &#8212; Russian territory that&#8217;s sandwiched between Poland and the Baltics but disconnected from the rest of Russia, known as an exclave &#8212; has been a focal point in tensions between Russia and the West.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Earlier this year, aerial images came to light that suggested the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/18\/europe\/russia-kaliningrad-nuclear-bunker-intl\/index.html\">Russians had significantly modernized a nuclear weapons storage<\/a> bunker in Kaliningrad. Now, satellite imagery and analysis from ImageSat International, a commercial satellite firm, appear to confirm that a major modernization is underway in at least four locations throughout the region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reykjavik, Iceland (CNN)New satellite imagery shared exclusively with CNN shows Russia appearing to upgrade four of its military installations in Kaliningrad, Russia&#8217;s strategic outpost on NATO&#8217;s doorstep.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kaliningrad &#8212; Russian territory that&#8217;s sandwiched between Poland and the Baltics but disconnected from the rest of Russia, known as an exclave &#8212; has been a focal point in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}