[D66] Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Kaliningrad as Ukrainian counteroffensive falters

[René Oudeweg]

 wsws.org

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Kaliningrad as Ukrainian
counteroffensive falters
9-11 minutes

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Kaliningrad, a
Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea, which is separated from
Russian-aligned Belarus by the Suwałki Gap, which runs along the
Polish-Lithuanian border.

Amidst the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, the Suwałki
Gap has been the focal point of growing tensions between NATO and
Russia. The stretch of land passes through NATO territory, and Lithuania
and Poland have both systematically sought to provoke a conflict with
Russia over it by first attempting to ban freight deliveries from Russia
to Kaliningrad, and, most recently, ceasing to issue visas to almost all
Russian citizens. Commentators have long warned that if a direct
military conflict between NATO and Russia were to occur in Europe, it
would likely start over the Suwałki Gap.

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