'We know how to live next to Russia': Lithuania builds border fence with Kaliningrad

Russia's recent Baltic moves - huge military exercise, cyber-attacks, missile deployment and seizure of Estonian official - prompt action by Vilnius

For those approaching the border crossing from the Lithuanian side, the Russian guards and military personnel are obscured by a bend in the road and the trees of the RamoniAkiai forest. Only a towering communication pole, watching and listening, shows how close they are.

Barely 50 vehicles a day pass through here making their way between Lithuania, once part of the Soviet Union, and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea. Wedged between Lithuania to its north and east, and Poland to its south, Kaliningrad is about 800 miles (1,300km) from Moscow.