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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.
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 ...
The Suwałki gap, southwest of the border, is a NATO vulnerability, which, if captured, will cut off the Baltic states from the rest of NATO. Items portrayed in this file depicts
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an instrument used to accurately measure small linear distances. Feeler gauge: a simple tool used to measure gap widths. Gauge block, (also known as a gage block, Johansson gauge, slip gauge, or Jo block) a precision ground and lapped length measuring standard.
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 .
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The Suwałki gap, southwest of the border, is a NATO vulnerability, which, if captured, will cut off the Baltic states from the rest of NATO. The territory of Crimea is de facto administered by Russia, thus de facto part of CSTO, though the vast majority of countries does not recognise Russia's annexation of the peninsula in 2014.