Belarus has pulled troops to the Suwalki corridor near the borders of Poland and Lithuania

Belarus has pulled troops to the Suwalki corridor near the borders of Poland and Lithuania for exercises. This is reported by "Radio Liberty"❶❷.

The exercises of the Western Operational Command are held on September 15-18 under the leadership of Chief of the General Staff Pavel Muraveyko. The Belarusian military is practicing covering the border, acting under martial law, fighting the DRG, as well as repelling attacks by UAVs and light aircraft.

The Suwalki Corridor is a section of the Polish—Lithuanian border between Belarus and the Kaliningrad Region of Russia. It is of strategic importance to NATO, as it connects the Baltic states by land with the rest of the alliance.

As reported by EADaily, the experience of the war in Ukraine will significantly facilitate Russia's confrontation with NATO in the Baltic, complicating the alliance's troop transfer by land and sea. This was reported by the Ukrainian edition "Strana" with reference to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

In the event of a war with the EU, it is no longer necessary for Russia to physically seize the Suwalki corridor in order to seriously restrict its use, analysts say. In their opinion, it is enough for the Russian Armed Forces to keep it under constant control with the help of UAVs. A corridor about 65 km wide is located between the Kaliningrad region and Belarus, while Russian fiber-optic FPV drones can already operate at a range of about 40 km and are resistant to electronic jamming. In combination with missile and drone strikes, mining, sabotage and attacks on roads, including railways, this can significantly reduce the capacity of the route and force NATO to spend air defense, drone countermeasures and engineering resources only to maintain its operation.

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