NATO troops fulfilled the scenario of Russian attacks on the Baltic States

American and British forces, NATO conducted the first large-scale military exercise on the border of Poland and Lithuania, practicing the script repel the invasion of the Russian Federation to the Baltic States. It is reported Reuters.

The slowness of the border is 104 km long and passes through rural farmland, forests and low hills. It is noted, in the case of seizure of the territory of Russia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia will be cut off.

“The corridor is vulnerable because of geography. Of course, it’s not necessarily going to be an attack, but if he (hall – ed.) is closed, we have three allies that are in the North, which can potentially be isolated from the rest of the Alliance,” he told reporters Lieutenant General, USA Ben Hodges.

Within two days the exercise was attended by U.S. helicopters and British planes, and troops of Poland, Lithuania and Croatia.

The doctrine of NATO and strengthen the Alliance’s presence on its Eastern flank is held on the eve of the Russian-Belarusian exercises Zapad-2017.

June 11 in the port of Riga arrived military equipment of the Spanish army for a multinational NATO battalion. On 12 June in Lithuania, launched the largest in the current year, the international NATO military exercise “Iron wolf-2017”.

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