If your plan is to stare down the threat from Russian aggression in Europe, there are few better places to do it than from the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
It’s the closest EU capital to Moscow, and also a mere 270 kilometres from Lithuania’s frontier with the militarised Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad. A 60-kilometre strip of the Polish-Lithuanian border runs from Kaliningrad to Belarus, a vulnerable and coveted corridor known as the Suwalki Gap.
Hans van LeeuwenJournalistHans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.
