Russian state television showed footage of northern Poland during a report on the Russian city of Kaliningrad, local media said Friday.A Rossiya 1 news program that aired Thursday reported on President Vladimir Putin’s meeting on the development of the Kaliningrad region, a western exclave that borders Lithuania and Poland.“The region remains competitive in the face of Western sanctions,” a Rossiya correspondent says off-camera as drone footage shows the northern Polish city of Elblag, distinguished by the Gothic-style St.

Nicholas Cathedral.Elblag is located less than 50 kilometers southwest of the border with Kaliningrad.Local media in the Russian enclave noted that the city of Kaliningrad does have a street named Elblag.Earlier this year, Poland said it wouldrename the Kaliningrad region to Krolewiec in government documents, sparking criticism from the Kremlin, which called the decision a “hostile act.”