Newsweek's map shows the nine-hour flight utilizing friendly airspace to circle Kaliningrad, Russia's semi-exclave sandwiched between Poland and ... Finland's 830-mile land border with Russia.

However, illegal migrants bused to the border by Russian and Belarusian authorities increasingly use garden ladders to scale the wall and get into Poland.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left Kaliningrad Oblast isolated from the rest of Russia. Poland and Lithuania both joining NATO and the EU has led to stronger border controls on the ...

Poland has deployed fighter jets and activated missile systems on its northern border with Russia, to mount a proper response in wake of a potential Russian attack. In a statement, Poland’s ...