Lithuania’s defense spending in the future will depend on available budget funds and the needs of its Armed Forces, Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, said on Monday, clarifying his position on the matter. […]
After Lithuania begins next year to earmark 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to defence, financing of the sector should not grow any further, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]
NATO fighter-jets serving in the air-policing mission of the Baltic states were last week scrambled three times from Lithuania to intercept Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]
The goal of Zapad 2017, a large-scale military exercise that Russia and Belarus will hold later this month, is “to frighten us”, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who will be visiting the United States during the drills, said on Friday. […]
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis, together with his counterparts from other EU countries, on Thursday will take part in a strategic tabletop exercise in Tallinn aimed at countering cyber attacks. […]
Lithuania’s security situation and preparedness ahead of next week’s Zapad 2017 military exercise in Russia and Belarus is much better than in 2013, the heads of the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defense said on Wednesday after being updated on the security situation in the region. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee will Wednesday hear information about the regional security information from the State Security Department and the Second Investigations Department ahead of the Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2017 exercise due to kick off next week. […]
The governmental Extreme Situations Commission decided after a meeting at the Interior Ministry on Tuesday that institutions in charge of civil safety would work under a usual regime during the upcoming Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2017 training. […]
NATO fighter-jets patrolling Baltic airspace were scrambled seven times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the US Army commander in Europe, is coming to Lithuania on Thursday to discuss the security situation in the region. […]
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the US Army commander in Europe, will start a two-day visit to Lithuania on Thursday. […]
A team of Lithuanian troops are returning on Wednesday from the EU-led operation Sophia aimed at curbing human and arms smuggling activity in the Mediterranean Sea, the Defense Ministry said. […]
The United States is taking over the Baltic air policing mission two weeks ahead of Zapad 2017 (West), a large-scale military exercise to be held jointly by Russia and Belarus. […]
The United States has boosted the Baltic air policing mission as Russia and Belarus prepare to hold their joint large-scale military exercise Zapad (West) next month. […]
Troops from the Lithuanian Air Force’s Aviation Base are taking part in the Ample Strike international air force exercise hosted by the Czech Republic. […]
The Lithuanian and German presidents on Friday visited German military personnel stationed in Rukla, in the central Lithuanian district of Jonava. […]
German troops leading NATO‘s multinational battalion in Lithuania will be present in the country until the security situation improves, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday that she expects that observers will be able to see if Russia will take its troops out of Belarus after next month’s Zapad military exercise is over, but she did not comment on whether there are indications that Russian military personnel may stay in the neighboring country. […]
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