The Polish armed forces are staging their largest military drills of the year, bringing together around 30,000 troops from Poland and NATO alongside more than 600 tanks, aircraft and missile systems.
Codenamed “Iron Gate,” the exercises are taking place at a training ground in Orzysz, just 100 kilometers from the strategic Suwałki Gap—a narrow corridor connecting northeastern Poland and Lithuania, sandwiched between Belarus and Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. […]
Just across the border, Minsk and Moscow have just finished conducting their own military exercises, the Zapad 2025 drills , which Polish authorities said were designed to rehearse an attack on the Suwałki Gap.
The exercises also follow an unprecedented breach of Polish airspace by Russian drones last week, with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning that the violations were “the closest we have been to open conflict since World War II.” Läs artikel