The Suwałki Gap is a sparsely populated stretch of forested plain 100 km wide, connecting Poland and Lithuania and bordering Kremlin ally Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

The two top candidates don't agree on much but both support more defense spending to challenge what they see as Russia's ever ...

Plans for the evacuation of Vilnius were published as fears over Russia's military ambitions continue to grow.

The Baltic countries are arming themselves massively and everyone is talking about a possible invasion by Moscow's troops. In ...

Lithuania will spend €1.1 billion to fortify its border with Russia and Belarus, including to purchase anti-tank mines, the NATO member on the alliance's eastern flank has said.

In particular, this focuses on the defense of the Suwalki Gap. This 100-kilometer (63-mile) narrow stretch of forested plain, which links Poland, Lithuania, and Finland, with Belarus on one side and ...

The small piece of land separating Kaliningrad from Belarus is known as the Suwałki gap, and it has been identified by NATO military analysts as a potential weak spot in the Western alliance's ...

The Russians are on the move. Smashing east from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and west from Moscow's satellite of Belarus, they hammer NATO defenses along the Suwałki Gap — the thin strip of ...

TASS/. Poland is using the issue of the Suwalki Gap as a pretext to enter Lithuania and potentially occupy part of its territory, Andrey Bogodel, deputy head of the department of the General Staff ...

Military strategists have long considered the so-called Suwałki gap - a narrow stretch along Lithuania's border, which runs between Kaliningrad and Belarus - a potential vulnerability in Nato's ...