Former British intelligence officer Philip Ingram in an interview with the British daily “The Sun” warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin could get ready to attack NATO. In this context, he pointed to the “Achilles heel” of the alliance, i.e. the Suwałki isthmus.
It is a narrow belt of Polish soil, connecting Lithuania with Poland and the rest of Europe. – Suwałki is very important for the West. It is a land connection with the Baltic States, which, which is not commonly talked about for political reasons, are in military terms one of the weakest elements of the NATO eastern flank – The reserve colonel Dariusz Kozerawski explained in an interview with Onet.
Now Ingram emphasized that the capture of Suwałki would cut off Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia from their allies from NATO. According to the expert, a possible attack of Russia on this territory may precede the severity of the Kremlin propaganda campaigns aimed at Baltic States. In his opinion, Putin may also try to exert economic pressure on the region and carry out communication attacks.
An expert with “unusual troops”.
For now, he pays attention to another disturbing thing. “We are observing the increased presence of the Russian army in Kaliningrad and Belarus, we see sudden military exercises and unusual movements of troops, disrupting GPS, sabotage of undersea cables and the action of” green men “,” said a high -ranking officer of British military intelligence.
He emphasized that potential threats to the Baltic States should be compared with what preceded the invasion of Ukraine and receive as a serious warning signal. He explained that it was a mass concentration of the armed forces on the border with Ukraine just before the war in 2022.
On September 7, Russia carried out a powerful attack on the territory of Ukraine, using unmanned aerial vehicles and ground rockets. The attack for the first time damaged the headquarters of the government in Kiev.
