Russia is ‘planning to use Wagner fighters to invade a key strategic strip of land straddling the border between Poland and Lithuania’, Putin’s crony has revealed.
A top Putin parliamentarian revealed on Russian state television that mercenary forces were ready to march on the sought-after territory ‘in a matter of hours’, in a move that could trigger World War Three.
The Suwalki Corridor is a 60-mile strip of land straddling the border between Poland and Lithuania – and holds massive strategic importance for both Nato and Russia.
For the West, it is the only land link to the three ex-Soviet Baltic republics – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – which are seen as vulnerable to Putin if the current east-west tension worsens.
For Russia, control of the corridor would give a land link between the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, main base of Putin’s Baltic Fleet, and firm Kremlin ally Belarus.
Russia is threatening to Wagner fighters to invade Nato’s ‘weakest link’ in Poland and Lithuania…