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Poland, Lithuania leaders meet troops at NATO bottleneck

People walk in the city center of Suwalki, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2022. The Suwalki gap, which stretches about 100 kilometres along the Lithuanian-Polish border and lies sandwiched between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has long been regarded as a vulnerable point in Nato's defences, if a conflict breaks out with Russia. The presidents of NATO members Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, voiced confidence Thursday that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor, which links their countries, between Russian ally Belarus and a Russian Baltic Sea exclave. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

A farmer drives on a road, about 10 km from Polish-Lithuanian border in Gulbieniszki, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2022. The Suwalki gap, which stretches about 100 kilometres along the Lithuanian-Polish border and lies sandwiched between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has long been regarded as a vulnerable point in Nato's defences, if a conflict breaks out with Russia. The presidents of NATO members Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, voiced confidence Thursday that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor, which links their countries, between Russian ally Belarus and a Russian Baltic Sea exclave. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

A farmer drives on a road, about 10 km from Polish-Lithuanian border in Gulbieniszki, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2022. The Suwalki gap, which stretches about 100 kilometres along the Lithuanian-Polish border and lies sandwiched between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has long been regarded as a vulnerable point in Nato's defences, if a conflict breaks out with Russia. The presidents of NATO members Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, voiced confidence Thursday that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor, which links their countries, between Russian ally Belarus and a Russian Baltic Sea exclave. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Cars drive on express road in Suwalki, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2022. The Suwalki gap, which stretches about 100 kilometres along the Lithuanian-Polish border and lies sandwiched between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has long been regarded as a vulnerable point in Nato's defences, if a conflict breaks out with Russia. The presidents of NATO members Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, voiced confidence Thursday that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor, which links their countries, between Russian ally Belarus and a Russian Baltic Sea exclave. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

A stroke flies over an express road near Suwalki, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2022. The Suwalki gap, which stretches about 100 kilometres along the Lithuanian-Polish border and lies sandwiched between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has long been regarded as a vulnerable point in Nato's defences, if a conflict breaks out with Russia. The presidents of NATO members Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, voiced confidence Thursday that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor, which links their countries, between Russian ally Belarus and a Russian Baltic Sea exclave. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

A general view is pictured from the top of the Cisowa mountain, about 10 km from Polish-Lithuanian border in Gulbieniszki, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2022. The Suwalki gap, which stretches about 100 kilometres along the Lithuanian-Polish border and lies sandwiched between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has long been regarded as a vulnerable point in Nato's defences, if a conflict breaks out with Russia. The presidents of NATO members Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, voiced confidence Thursday that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor, which links their countries, between Russian ally Belarus and a Russian Baltic Sea exclave. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Poland, Lithuania leaders meet troops at NATO bottleneck