Orlaivis C-27 "Spartan"
Foreign affairs

Eleven Ukrainian soldiers to be treated in Lithuanian hospitals

A Lithuanian Air Force‘s Spartan airplane will land at Vilnius international airport in early hours of Sunday, bringing 11 injured participants of the anti-terrorist operation from Ukraine‘s Dnepropetrovsk region. […]

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Defence

Civilian injured during Lithuanian-US war games in Jonava district

A civilian was injured during a military exercise in Gaižiūnai training grounds in Lithuania’s central Jonava district in late hours of Thursday. […]

Foreign affairs

President: Lithuania interested in boosting food exports to Israel

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Vilnius on Thursday and emphasized Lithuania’s interest of boosting exports of food products to the country. […]

Vytenis Andriukaitis
European Union

Lithuanian EC candidate: Food safety will be crucial in context of political events in Eastern Europe

Lithuania’s former health minister Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, who was on Wednesday officially confirmed as candidate for the health and food safety portfolio in the European Commission, says that the field is very important amid the Russian attempts to politicize food safety issues and the EU negotiations with the United States on a trade agreement. […]

Juozas Olekas
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian defence minister says EU should send humanitarian aid and military equipment to Ukraine

The European Union should provide Ukraine with both humanitarian aid and military equipment, Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said in an informal meeting of EU defence ministers in Milan this week. […]