Putin says Russia will 'never agree' to EU plans for Kaliningrad visas

President Vladimir Putin said he will "never agree to the division of the sovereignty of Russia" implied by European Union plans to impose visas on the residents of the country's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.

"What we hear today is worse than the Cold War because it divides the sovereignty of Russia. We will never agree to the division of the sovereignty of Russia," Putin told a summit of Baltic heads of government in Saint Petersburg.