NATO’s Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) commander is meeting with commanders of the Air Forces of the Nordic and Baltic states and Poland in Lithuania on Wednesday to discuss the regional security situation, military cooperation and share the latest information about the national air forces. […]
Officer in charge of military procurement, Colonel Darius Užkuraitis, is being rotated to NATO’s Joint Force Headquarters in Brunssum, the Netherlands. […]
Dutch troops are coming to Lithuania this week for their deployment in the country as part of NATO’s multinational battalion, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. […]
All NATO members are united in an agreement to dedicate 2% of their GDP to defence spending. Lithuania, which has long not upheld this, has finally begun to increase spending. However an economist points out […]
NATO should move its military comomands closer to the Alliance’s Eastern borders, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said Thursday after meeting with General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe. […]
The presence of US troops in the region is already virtually permanent, General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe said in Vilnius on Thursday, as Lithuania has asked for deployment of troops in its territory on permanent, not rotational basis. […]
Lithuania’s parliament adopted amendments allowing members of the Riflemen’s Union to keep semi -automatic guns in their homes last summer, however, not a single rifleman has been granted a permit yet. […]
The Defence Ministry’s Defence Resource Council on Friday gave a green light to the reform of the defence system, with a centralized procurement agency being the main focus. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has applauded the response of the country’s citizens of Russian and Polish nationality to growing external threats in the shape of voluntary service in the national defence system. […]
Lithuania will increase its contribution to the EU’s military operations and missions, Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis said during a meeting of the bloc’s defense and foreign ministers on Monday. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Ministry intends continue raising the number of professional troops next year and form two new battalions in western part of the country. […]
Before switching on the dictophone, Gintas Jasiulionis, elder of Rukla, a town in central Lithuania that is hosting the NATO enhanced Forward Presence battalion, asks BNS journalists to produce their press cards – he explains he wants to make sure he is not targeted by the Russian propaganda. […]
Washington sees Lithuania’s efforts of boosting its own and regional security, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a telephone conversation with Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Thursday evening. […]
Lithuania plans to purchase new equipment to improve the protection of the state border, according to the plan of measures for the implementation of the governmental programme published on Thursday. […]
Czech troops in the NATO battalion being stationed in Lithuania would be a significant contribution to the consolidation of deterrence and defence, Lithuania’s Defence Raimundas Karoblis said after meeting with his Czech counterpart, Martin Stropnicki. […]
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, commander of the United States Army Europe, has applauded Lithuania’s plans of earmarking 2 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) to defence next year, emphasizing that the way of spending the money was even more important. […]
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, commander of the United States Army Europe, has urged Russia to ensure transparency during the Zapad 2017 military exercise to be held near Lithuania’s border in September. […]
Lithuanian prosecutors have asked a court to annul capital increase deals of AmberCore DC and Arcus Novus, which are building the country’s largest privately-owned data center close to Vilnius. Intelligence services say the project could have links with the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB). […]
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