Kaliningrad Border Region And Suwalki Gap

ZERDZINY, POLAND - OCTOBER 28: A warning sign stands on the Russian side next to a Lithuanian border fence near the precise point where the borders of Poland, Lithuania and the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad meet as seen on October 28, 2022 near Zerdziny, Poland. The monument marks the western tip of the strategically vital Suwalki Gap, an approximately 70km long stretch of land along the Lithuanian and Polish border between Kaliningrad and Russia-loyal Belarus. Should a military conflict ever break out, Russian control of the Suwalki Gap would cut the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia off from the rest of the European Union. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)