Russia suspects a plan behind NATO maneuvers: diplomat attacks Germany. Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation to the negotiations in Vienna on military security and arms control, railed against the West.
He accused NATO of looking for a pretext to establish a permanent military corridor at the strategically sensitive Suwalki Gap on the border between Poland and Lithuania. A Bundeswehr combat unit is already stationed in Lithuania as part of the enhanced Forward Presence Lithuania. And: Germany and the Netherlands have been working together in the Baltics since 2017 through the NATO Battlegroup Lithuania.