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. […]
Lithuania intends to slightly increase the number of conscripts to be recruited to the Armed Forces next year, as compared with 2017. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) said on Friday that it has fired Tomas Jakučionis, an intelligence officer, over a conflict of interest. […]
From 29–30 September, the National Library of Latvia in Rīga will host the annual international forum called The Rīga Conference 2017, which is dedicated to foreign policy and security matters. The conference is organised by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence. […]
Lithuania’s Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has instructed the ministry’s Corruption Prevention and Internal Investigations Division to scrutinize the circumstances of a possible leak of information from the Migration Department to third parties. […]
Lithuania will raise its contingent in the United Nations (UN) mission in Mali to nearly 40 troops from October from the current number of five, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanian authorities who have detained a drunk Russian border guards have received conflicting calls from Russia to free the young man – a Russian border general initially said the man was an unemployed handicapped man, however, later admitted he was employed with the Russian border service, according to documents received by BNS. […]
Šakiai district court should Tuesday afternoon start hearing an unlawful state border crossing case, with charges brought against a Russian officer who entered Lithuania by crossing the River Šešupė flowing along the Lithuanian-Kaliningrad border. […]
The Zapad 2017 military exercise held by Russia and Belarus last week involved several times more troops than official numbers and saw bombardments and other dangerous actions take place close to the Baltic countries’ borders, top-ranking Lithuanian military intelligence and Defense Ministry officials said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis will on Tuesday present an initial assessment of Zapad 2017, a Russia-Belarus joint military exercise that ended last week. […]
NATO fighter-jets patrolling Baltic airspace were scrambled nine times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]
Lithuanian officials have denied giving permission to Russian military aircraft last week to enter the country’s airspace to avoid adverse weather conditions. […]
Lithuanian airspace must be respected, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Monday after two Russian military aircraft last week entered the country’s territory over its territorial waters. […]
Two Russian IL-76 military transport aircraft last week violated Lithuania’s airspace, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. […]
The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT) and prosecutors have confirmed yet another investigation into violation of the state border where a Belarusian border guard is suspected of unlawfully entering Lithuania. […]
Participation in international missions benefits Lithuania’s Armed Forces, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said at the parliament on Thursday in his presentation of the bid to send more troops to such operations. […]
The public in Lithuania is too nervous about Zapad 2017, a large-scale military exercise that has started in Russia and Belarus, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Thursday morning. […]
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