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The Suwałki Gap, also known as the Suwałki corridor [a] [b] ([suˈvawkʲi] ⓘ), is a sparsely populated area around the border between Lithuania and Poland, and centres on the shortest path between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast on the Polish side of the border.
“Some people say the agreement reached at the NATO summit on Sweden’s future membership is changing the geopolitical situation, and the strategic importance of the Suwalki Corridor is diminishing.
To the military planners of NATO, an area of the Lithuania–Poland border area is known as the Suwałki Gap because it represents a military difficulty. It is a flat narrow piece of land, a gap, that is between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and that connects the three NATO-member Baltic States to Poland and the rest of NATO ...
To the military planners of NATO, the border area is known as the Suwałki Gap (named after the nearby town of Suwałki) because it represents a military difficulty. It is a flat narrow piece of land, a gap, that is between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and that connects the three NATO-member Baltic States to Poland and the rest of ...
But deploying Russian-allied forces near the Suwalki corridor would represent an escalation that could rattle NATO and EU members. Though just 60 miles long, the corridor is strategically ...
Beside being NATO’s and the EU’s frontier, Poland’s eastern border includes a strategic spot, the so-called Suwalki Gap — 96 kilometers (60 miles) of border with Lithuania that links the ...
Initially, Russia pushed for a right to have a military corridor, but Lithuania refused as it would breach the country's sovereignty. [4] The agreement was signed and the simplified transit mechanism began operating on 1 July 2003, with Lithuania fully regulating the rules of the transit. [ 4 ]
Only two roads and one railroad line run through the 65 km (40 miles) wide corridor - the Suwalki Gap - that is squeezed between the heavily armed Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the west and ...