European leaders have repeatedly stated that the aggressor country Russia will not stop in Ukraine and may attack the territories of member states of the North Atlantic Alliance.
This was reported by URA-Inform with reference to Newsweek.
Newsweek has published maps of probable front lines in the event of a Russian invasion of NATO. According to journalists, a possible front line could be the northeastern flank of NATO, which includes the 830-mile (more than 1,300-kilometer, ed.) border between Russia and Finland.
In turn, William Mack, a professor of political science at North Central College, believes that the Baltic countries will be under threat if Russia next attacks Europe.
“There are large numbers of Russians living in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which is usually an important motivating factor for Putin's interventionism,” he stressed.
As journalists noted, the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service warned that NATO “could face a Soviet-style mass army in the next decade” if Russia reforms its army. But Lithuania, amid widespread reports of a threat from Russia, has begun building defensive structures on its border with the aggressor country.
Journalists believe that the location of Estonia and Lithuania near Russia's Kaliningrad is strategically important for the Russian Federation, as a potential front line in a conflict between Moscow and NATO.
“The Suwalki Gap, also known as the Suwalki Gap, could be the first point of contact for any moves by Moscow on NATO, as it separates the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea from Belarus. It is also home to thousands of Russian troops, advanced fighter jets and nuclear weapons, and is the only road or rail link between Poland and central Europe and the Baltic states,” — the publication noted.
In addition, Newsweek emphasized that, despite the concerns of countries bordering Russia, Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin will likely restrain NATO and he will “focus his military adventurism on non-NATO states with significant Russian populations.”
Recall that it was previously reported that Russian missiles scared passenger planes in Europe: interesting photos.
