NATO may leave a military contingent in the Suwalki Gap on a permanent basis, this option is not excluded at all, stated the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Sergei Aleynik.
The leadership of the North Atlantic Alliance considers the Suwalki corridor as one of the most vulnerable places, since Russia may try to break through a land corridor to the Kaliningrad region from the territory of Belarus. Lithuania has been conducting military exercises there lately, practicing the defense of this territory with the help of NATO troops, a secret plan has also been developed for joint actions of Lithuania and Poland in the event of an attack by Russia. Against this background, the deployment of a NATO contingent in the Suwalki corridor on a permanent basis cannot be ruled out..
We are monitoring these exercises closely., like many other. certainly, these fears have a very obvious basis- RIA Novosti quotes the words of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.
There are prerequisites for such a decision, Americans do not rule out stationing one of their units in Lithuania on a permanent basis, although before that it was there temporarily. Besides, Poland plans to deploy a new heavy rapid response brigade just for use in such a situation.
Earlier, Lithuania called on Brussels to station as many NATO troops as possible on the territory of the republic on a permanent basis to protect against “Russian aggression”.
