 Polish forces conducted a counteroffensive exercise, simulating a takeover of the strategic Vistula Split Canal on April 17. Air, ground and sea forces teamed to train on a strategy to liberate the canal and surrounding bridges, located a few miles away from Russia's enclave of Kaliningrad. �We are trying to deter possible Russian aggression from there,� said Polish Colonel Karol Frankowski. �U.S. Army personnel and vehicles also took part in the exercise. Inaugurated in 2022, the Vistula Split Canal, located in Skoronki, allows ships to cross the Gdansk Bay and reach the Baltic Sea avoiding Russian waters. �Forces that first mechanized battalion will try to take over the bridge, and there will be also the Moscow episode, so lots of damage in the soldiers, so there will be the helicopter, which will take the wounded soldiers, and basically also there will be the support from the Navy, so in this exercise engaged are the Navy, the land forces, the air forces and the territorial forces. You see this canal was built about a few months ago, and from this side of Poland you can just go directly to Russia, so this is training, which is very important because we are trying to deter the possible Russian aggression from there, from this part of Poland. So this bridge is the vital bridge, because this is the only one in the neighborhood, which can go to the other side of land.