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defence24.pl 9 months ago
**Jędrzej Bielecki: Rzeczpospolita:‘It will be hard to come to the Baltic countries' rescue’**
"Without connecting Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by road and fast rail to Poland, a major challenge will be the defence by NATO of the Baltic countries against a possible Russian attack. 33 years after their independence, they inactive haven't been able to build them. The seriousness of the situation is discussed by the Head of the Joint Support Command (JSEC) of NATO, General Alexander Sollfrank. In his opinion, it is advanced time that NATO not only introduced the procedures, but above all built the infrastructure that will let the fast spread of dense weapons and ammunition. Germany indicates that the east flank is about 4,000 km. Military mobility is in this situation a condition for the success of Russian repelling operations _ Russia launches 50,000 missiles a day on the Ukrainian front. So we're talking about a war on exhaustion, a fight about which the consequence will be settled by logistics_ explains Sollfrank of the Reuter agency. This is simply a peculiar challenge for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The defence of 3 countries, which for any experts seemed highly hard a fewer years ago, if not impossible, has now become easier by joining NATO Sweden and Finland. The Baltic States have gained what the military calls a "strategic depth": they can number on the facilities west of their sea borders."
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