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Poland taking over NATO air-policing mission from Netherlands
The Polish Air Force is taking over NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission from the Royal Netherlands Air Force in a ceremony at the Šiauliai air base in Lithuania on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuania opening this year’s largest national exercise “Saber Strike”
Lithuania is opening this year’s largest national exercise Saber Strike 2017 on Friday to allow troops and officers of internal service coordinate their actions. […]
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Lithuania to stage this year’s largest national military exercise
The Lithuanian Armed Forces and units subordinate to the Interior Ministry will train to operate jointly during Lightning Strike 2017, this year’s largest national military exercise kicking off in Marijampolė and Vilkaviškis, in the southwestern part of the country, on Friday. […]
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Diena Media News sites hit by cyber attack
The Kauno.diena.lt, Klaipeda.diena.lt and Diena.lt news sites were the target of a cyber attack on Tuesday. […]
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Drill scenario didn’t involve proclamation of Šalčininkai republic
The scenario of a recent exercise organized by the Lithuanian Interior Ministry did not envisage the use of training weapons and the proclamation of “the People’s Republic of Šalčininkai”, Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas said on Wednesday. […]
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General to take helm of Lithuanian Military Academy
Brigadier General Algis Vaičeliūnas will become the chief of the Lithuanian Military Academy, the Defence Ministry has said. […]
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A third of Lithuanians favour universal military service
One-third of the Lithuanian population are in favor of introducing universal military service in the country, according to a survey carried out by the pollster RAIT for BNS. […]
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Municipality says InterMin exercise fuels hostility against Poland
Municipality of Šalčininkai, southeastern Lithuania, on Friday dismissed as provocation the recent exercise of deterring a saboteur attack. […]
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National Cyber Security Centre’s director resigns
Rimtautas Černiauskas has resigned as director of the Lithuanian National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Defence Ministry confirmed to BNS. […]
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Rosatom sought foothold in Lithuania – declassified intelligence info
Russia’s nuclear energy giant Rosatom, which is building the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, had plans to gain a foothold in Lithuania, according to declassified material provided by the State Security Department to the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence. […]
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Fake news about US troops posted on BNS website, cyber attack suspected
A fake news article about alleged mustard-gas poisoning among US troops in Latvia was posted on the Baltic News Service’s website in a suspected cyber attack on Wednesday. […]
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Pentagon chief expected in Lithuania
United States Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis, one of the highest-ranking officers of the US administration, may come to Lithuania, Lietuvos Žinios daily said. […]
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Lithuania to participate in the establishment of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
On 11 April in Helsinki, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the establishment of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats was signed by representatives of the U.S., the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland, France, Sweden and Germany, Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a press release. […]
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About 700 Lithuanian statutory officers attend training to deter “little green men”
Nearly 700 Lithuanian border guards, police officers and public security officers on Tuesday attended a training to deter attacks of the so-called “little green men” near the country’s borders. […]
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Lithuanian officials train to repel raids by foreign saboteurs
Lithuanian border guards, police and public security officers are training to repel cross-border raids by foreign saboteurs in an exercise on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said. […]
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Lithuania’s ex-air force commander dismissed from military service
Lithuanian Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis has dismissed Colonel Audronis Navickas, a former Air Force commander, from professional military service, the Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]
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Lithuania willing to contribute to counter-terrorism efforts – PM
Lithuania is willing to help Allies with sources of terrorism, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said after the Friday’s attack in the Swedish capital Stockholm where a truck ran into a crowd of people. […]
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Dutch chief of defence and DefMin coming to Lithuania
Dutch Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Chief of Defence General Tom Middendorp are coming to Lithuania on Monday. […]
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Lithuanian security advised suspending investment of 6 firms due to Russia links in 2016
Lithuania’s State Security Department last year recommended suspending investment of six companies in connection to economic and energy security due to their possible links with Russia. […]