More than one hundred Wagner Group forces are reportedly traveling the Suwalki Gap, a 50-mile strip of land between Poland and Lithuania that connects Belarus to the isolated Russian Kaliningrad Oblast on the Baltic Sea, a movement that worries the NATO allies concerned Wagner forces will infiltrate their countries, CNN reports.
Kaliningrad is a vital port region for Russian trade and maintaining its naval power on the Baltic, and the Suwalki Gap is strategically important to keep open to defend the NATO allies on the Baltic. Moving Wagner troops along this undefined stretch of land to Kaliningrad concerns leaders of Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia because it could signal Russian intent to isolate the region and limit trade.