Experts: Russia currently not strong enough to close the 'Suwalki gap'
The Russian military most likely lacks the wherewithal to mount a serious offensive to cut off the three Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, from the rest of NATO and the EU, so far as land borders go, by closing the so-called Suwalki gap, a 100-km stretch of border between Poland and Lithuania, experts say. This does not mean that the gap does not remain a vulnerable zone for NATO in the region.