Kaliningrad Border Region And Suwalki Gap

VISTYTIS, LITHUANIA - OCTOBER 28: A Lithuanian border fence and marker (L) face a Russian border marker and fence along the border to the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad on October 28, 2022 near Vistytis, Lithuania. Vistytis and its surrounding region lie in 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)