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Lithuanian, Polish and US security and defence officials and experts will visit on Tuesday the so-called "Suwalki gap" to discuss the defence of the land corridor.

Lithuanian Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis is planning to establish a separate agency to coordinate military purchases, saying that centralization would help ensure better controls.

If Russian tanks and troops invaded the Baltic States, NATO forces would be overrun in just under three days, according to a war games simulation by the Rand Corporation, a leading US think tank.