has declared it will discuss with NATO leaders plans to ramp up militarisation of the island of Gotland, a thousand square mile spit of land that is widely seen as the most strategic location in the Baltic Sea. Described by analysts and commentators as a 'giant aircraft carrier', Stockholm-administered Gotland lies just 120 miles off the coast of 's Baltic triad of Estonia, and Lithuania, but also just 230 miles north of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.Its prime location offers huge advantages in the deployment and control of air and sea traffic in the Baltic Sea, and has been referenced regularly by military analysts and commentators in Russian media as a highly desirable target.
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