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 …

2022年3月3日 · The Suwalki corridor (also known as the Suwalki Gap) separates the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea from Belarus, now host to thousands of Russian troops and soon home to...

2022年6月20日 · In fact, on a daylong journey across the Lithuanian side of the Suwałki corridor, a rural landscape of small farms, rolling fields of buttercups and forest, this reporter didn’t see even one military vehicle or soldier.

2022年7月7日 · Spanning 40 miles as the crow flies, the Suwalki Gap is a corridor of land, running along the Polish/Lithuanian border, that connects the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Belarus.

2019年4月13日 · Since 2014, NATO strategists have focused much of their attention on a forty-mile-wide stretch of border between Poland and Lithuania called the Suwalki Gap (pronounced ‘Soo-vow-kee’). The gap’s...

2022年7月12日 · The Suwałki Gap is a diminutive stretch of NATO territory separating a Russian ally from the Russian exclave Kaliningrad. Concerns about the area elevated recently after Russia was prevented from transporting sanctioned goods to Kaliningrad.

2022年10月26日 · Renewed tensions between Russia and the West amid war in Ukraine have focused attention on the ‘Suwałki gap’. According to Cindy Regnier, this corridor along the Lithuanian-Polish border has been increasingly securitised. Still, any attempt to seize control over it would gain the Russians little.

2022年3月22日 · Warsaw has warned previously about its vulnerability. But what exactly is it and why is it strategically important to the Baltics? The corridor is a 100-kilometre-long ribbon of...

Strategically located, the Suwalki Corridor lies between two NATO member states, Lithuania and Poland, and is flanked by Russian-aligned territories: the Kaliningrad Oblast and Belarus. The corridor separates Belarus, heavily influenced by Russia, from the crucial Kaliningrad region.

2018年7月9日 · The Suwałki Corridor, a 65-kilometer wide stretch of land between Belarus and Kaliningrad, is some of the most important territory within NATO’s borders. It is NATO’s physical link between the Baltic littoral to the north and the European plain to the south, containing only two narrow highways and one railway line.