Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that, at the moment, he does not back the idea of introducing universal military conscription as he sees the modernization of the Armed Forces as the top defense priority for the next five years. […]
Lithuania will meet its commitment to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense this year even if it will have to spend over 10 million euros additionally due to its faster-than-projected economic growth, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday. […]
A Belgian contingent with four F-16 fighter jets will patrol Baltic airspace from Lithuania starting September, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said. […]
The Lithuanian Defense Ministry, its National Cyber Security Center and the country’s major online media outlets signed on Tuesday an agreement on cooperation in cyber security. […]
Lithuania’s army plans to set up a new infantry battalion in the northern city of Siauliai, the Ministry of National Defense announced on Friday. […]
Lithuania will spend almost 10 million euros on upgrading the RBS 70 short-range air defense capability the Lithuanian Armed Forces currently have, by purchasing missiles and equipment from Sweden’s Saab. […]
Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford has thanked Lithuania for its support in fighting terrorism and reiterated further commitment to the security of the Baltic Sea region. […]
US President Donald Trump has signed a law on the country’s defense budget for the next year, adopted by the Congress. Among other things, it includes a call to change NATO‘s Baltic air policing mission’s mandate into that of an air defense mission. […]
Russia poses the biggest cyber threat to Lithuania, Vice Minister of National Defense Edvinas Kerza says. […]
The Vilnius-based NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence is on Tuesday hosting a management change ceremony, with Colonel Romualdas Petkevičius replacing Colonel Gintautas Bagdonas as head of the center. […]
Lithuania’s government on Monday approved a new national cyber security strategy, drafted by the Ministry of National Defense after the parliament earlier backed a new version of the Law on Cyber Security. […]
Colonel Romualdas Petkevičius will replace Colonel Gintautas Bagdonas as head of the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence this week. […]
American army engineers are finishing installing a training area near Lithuania’s southeastern city of Kazlų Rūda, the national television LRT’s program Panorama reports. […]
Russian-capital company Yandex.Taxi, providing ride-sharing services in Vilnius, says it has five partners but only several of them have experience in the taxi business, and the remaining ones were established less than a year ago. […]
Specific and motivated legal solutions against ride-sharing company Yandex.Taxi are being looked for, but that’s not a strategic company which can be subject to certain restrictions, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
Fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of NATO’s air policing mission were scrambled eight times last week to identify and escort military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea, according to data from the Ministry of National Defense. […]
Officers from the Lithuanian interior system will carry out a tabletop exercise in September on how to respond to an explosion of a radioactive bomb during a mass gathering. […]
Lithuanian MP Audronius Ažubalis, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, on Friday called for eliminating the Russian-capital Yandex.Taxi ride-sharing service in Lithuania after receiving a response from the country’s State Security Department. […]
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