DIRMISKES, Lithuania (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda said Friday that “a potential aggressor must see our readiness” as he and his Lithuanian counterpart monitored a joint military drill along their shared border.
Duda and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda met on the last day of the week-long Brave Griffin 24/II military exercise along the Suwalki Gap, a strategically important stretch of land that’s considered a potential flashpoint area in case of a standoff between Russia and NATO.
The border, almost 100 kilometers (62 miles) long between NATO members Poland and Lithuania, is also a land corridor between Belarus, a Moscow ally, and Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad.
“There is a potential threat, which is why these exercises are going on,” Duda said.
The drill included 1,500 Lithuanian infantry soldiers, nearly 200 members of Poland’s 15th Mechanized Brigade, and U.S. and Portuguese military personnel.
Inquiry slams UK authorities for failures that killed thousands in infected blood scandal
Xi Stresses Studying, Understanding, Implementing Guiding Principles of Key Party Congress
CPC Leadership Makes Arrangements for Implementing Party Congress Guiding Principles
BBC Countryfile star Adam Henson's wife wrote heartbreaking goodbye letters after cancer diagnosis
(CPC Congress) CPC Elects New Central Committee, New Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
Xi Calls for Meeting Challenges of the Times Together at G20 Summit
Xi Focus: Xi Addresses CIIE, Calls for Joint Efforts for Bright Future of Openness, Prosperity
Ravens sign WR Qadir Ismail, the son of former NFL receiver Qadry Ismail
Xinhua Headlines: How the CPC's New Central Leadership Was Formed
Ship that caused Baltimore bridge collapse has been refloated
Xi Sends Congratulatory Letter to 2022 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit