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Allies Launch Gallant Boar 2026 to Secure Suwalki Gap

6/14/2026

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Lithuania, Poland and France will launch Gallant Boar 2026 exercise to secure the Suwalki Gap, with drills from June 16-26, 2026.
The 100-kilometre corridor links the Baltic states to NATO and is seen as the alliance’s vulnerable route; Lithuania’s Butigeidis Dragoon Battalion will join the Polish and French forces.
Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said NATO could neutralize Kaliningrad’s air-defence and missile systems, calling the Russian exclave a heavily militarized ‘small fortress.’

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Lithuania, Poland and France will launch Gallant Boar 2026 exercise to secure the Suwalki Gap, with drills from June 16-26, 2026.
The 100-kilometre corridor links the Baltic states to NATO and is seen as the alliance’s vulnerable route; Lithuania’s Butigeidis Dragoon Battalion will join the Polish and French forces.
Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said NATO could neutralize Kaliningrad’s air-defence and missile systems, calling the Russian exclave a heavily militarized ‘small fortress.’