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. […]
An international two-week exercise Iron Wolf II is kicking off on Wednesday in Lithuania’s Gaižiūnai training ground in the Jonava district and General Silvestras Žukauskas ground in Švenčionys district. […]
A brawl erupted between two off-duty foreign troops in Jonava, central Lithuania, earlier this month, the Defense Ministry confirmed to BNS on Monday. The incident was not reported to the society earlier. […]
Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday gave a green light to dispatch of more troops to international missions abroad, including increased participation in efforts against the Islamic State group. […]
Increase of Lithuania’s defense budget should be even, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, adding that other sectors in need of bigger funding should not be forgotten amid discussions about the need to raise it to 2.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). […]
More than 100 reserve troops will Wednesday start a repeated training in the Lithuanian army’s Grand Duchess Birute Uhlan Battalion. […]
Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG), the state-run railway company, will deliver 145 armored vehicles to the country from Germany. […]
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry has proposed a new version of the bill on martial law, which would replace the current language of the law adopted 17 years ago. […]
Lithuania’s defense budget for 2018 should be 2.006 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis cited the latest calculations on Tuesday. […]
Rasa Juknevičienė, a member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), has been re-elected as vice-president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly for another year during the assembly’s session in Bucharest. […]
NATO fighter aircraft conducting the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states were scrambled once from Lithuania last week to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea. […]
The Patriot anti-missile defense systems, which Poland plans to purchase, should also defend the airspace of Lithuania, says Michal Jach, chairman of the Polish Sejm Defense Committee. […]
NATO troops coming to Lithuania have been warned about break-ins into their smartphones, the Defense Ministry told BNS. […]
International firing exercise Hunter 2017 of anti-tank units is starting in Lithuania on Friday […]
After Lithuania reaches 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for defense next year, the defense funding should no longer be increased, with money directed towards reduction of social exclusion, says Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Social Democratic Party. […]
Moscow said on Wednesday that two Russian military aircraft violated Lithuanian airspace in late September in order to avoid a storm, which was in line with international rules. […]
A joint brigade of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine will be named after Kostanty Ostrogski, an outstanding military commander of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said. […]
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