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Poland, Baltic states call on NATO to strengthen defense of Belarus-Kaliningrad corridor

Poland and the Baltic states want to see NATO strengthen its collective defense in the narrow corridor separating the territory of Belarus, a close ally of Russia, from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea, the Polish prime minister said in a statement. Friday.

“We will ask for the strengthening of the corridor defense … in the discussions we will have with our NATO partners,” Mateusz Morawiecki was quoted as saying by Reuters after the European Union summit.

Lithuania’s ban on Russia passing certain goods subject to European sanctions through Lithuanian territory to the Kaliningrad enclave has escalated tensions between Moscow and the West, with the risk of a second front after that of Ukraine. .

Source: Capital

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