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Defence

Shortfall of explosives found at Lithuanian engineering battalion – prosecutors

An amount of explosive material is missing from the Lithuanian Armed Forces’ Juozas Vitkus Engineering Battalion, but law-enforcement officials do not rule out that the shortfall, which was discovered last week, might be due to an accounting error. […]

Ministry of National Defence
Defence

Lithuania plans to raise military salaries

The Lithuanian government plans a 30-percent increase in military salaries by the end of 2020 compared with 2016, with over 88 million euros in state budget funds to be provided for this purpose over the next three years, according to a draft budget approved by the Cabinet. […]

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Defence

NATO fighter-jets scrambled from Lithuania twice last week over Russian warplanes

NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were last week scrambled twice from Lithuania to intercept Russian warplanes over the Baltic Sea, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]

Darius Jauniškis
Defence

Lithuanian security chief: We must avoid hysteria when discussing threats

Darius Jauniškis, the director of the Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD), says that intelligence agencies are increasingly open to communication with the public as they cannot remain invisible services in this information age. […]

In the Eastern Ukraine
Defence

Lithuania sees idea of sending tri-natl brigade to East Ukraine as premature

Lithuanian officials say it is still too early to discuss whether troops of the tri-national Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian brigade could be sent to a possible United Nations (UN) operation in Eastern Ukraine. […]