[HIGHLIGHTS] Before major NATO maneuvers: Putin confidant Medvedev threatens “big war”

Before major NATO maneuvers: Putin confidant Medvedev threatens “big war”. Between Poland and Lithuania: NATO exercise to defend the Baltics could be cut off by land routes.

The German armed forces are providing 13,000 soldiers and dozens of battle tanks for the battle for the Suwalki Corridor. According to the Bundeswehr, the main battle routes for the Baltic states could becut off by the land routes to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.