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Riflemen’s Union to step up standards for members

January 6, 2017 BNS EN 0

In the wake of discussions about suitability of a riflemen to head one of the units after posing in front of a Russian flag, the Lithuanian Riflemen‘s Union has pledged to step requirements for members and leaders. […]

US Troops on the Gediminas Av. in Vilnius

Analyst – arrival of US Special Forces is not a signal to the Kremlin

January 5, 2017 LT Daily 0

The news that US Special Forces will arrive in Lithuania is not at all directed to the Kremlin, but Lithuania itself, military analyst Darius Antanaitis told LRT Radio. According to him it is likely that […]

Ramūnas Karbauskis at the DELFI TV conference

Peasants mull revising parliamentary agreement on defence

January 5, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) is considering revising an agreement on the country’s foreign, security and defense policy guidelines that was signed by parliamentary parties almost three years ago, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday. […]

Minister of Defence hopes all recruits to join voluntarily in 2017

January 4, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis hopes that all recruits will join the country’s Armed Forces voluntarily this year. […]

Seimas’ speaker: MPs should be safe from impact of foreign states

January 4, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says that MPs need training by the State Security Department to be able to resist threats from the outside and influence of foreign countries. […]

Lithuania confirms deployment of US special operators

January 3, 2017 BNS EN 0

After the Russian actions changed the security situation in Lithuania for the worse, troops of the United States’ Special Operations Forces were stationed in Lithuania, the Defence Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. […]

Lithuanian troops during the flag raising ceremony in Vilnius 2017

400 Lithuanian troops begin standby duty in NATO Response Force

January 3, 2017 BNS EN 0

Around 400 Lithuanian troops this month are starting their standby duty in the NATO Response Force (NRF) and the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), the Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]

Attempts to track unsafe Internet devices soar in Lithuania in 2016

January 2, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

The number of attempts to f ind devices with unsafe Internet access with the aim of using them for cyber attacks has risen by a factor of five in Lithuania in 2016. […]

Netherlands taking over NATO air-policing mission in Lithuania

January 2, 2017 BNS EN 0

Dutch aviators with four F-16 fighter-jets will take over the NATO Baltic air-policing mission conducted from the Šiauliai air base in Lithuania, the Alliance said. […]

Lithuania's Spec Ops Squad "Aitvaras" in Afghanistan

Lithuania should boost input to intl operations -Minister of Defence

December 30, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuania should increase its contribution to international operations, new Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis says. […]

remove Re-Crop Republican Senator John McCain of the US at the Presidential palace in Vilnius

McCain sees Lithuania’s move to raise defence spending as important signal

December 30, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s commitment to earmark 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to defence in 2018 is an important signal, Republican Senator John McCain of the United States has said in Vilnius. […]

Lithuania considers buying combat helicopters – new DefMin

December 30, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuania considers purchase of combat helicopters, says the country’s new Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis. […]

Lithuanian border guards spot drone flight from Kaliningrad

December 30, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian border guards registered an unmanned aircraft entering the country’s territory from the Russian Kaliningrad region in early hours of December 29. […]

McCain: Lithuania under threat, as Russia aims to restore empire

December 29, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuania is under threat, as resurgent Russia aims to restore its empire, US Senator John McCain said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė with the US Senators Senators Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar and John McCain

President: US role remains trans-Atlantic security guarantee

December 29, 2016 BNS EN 0

At a meeting with United States senators visiting Vilnius on Thursday, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė emphasized the country’s role to trans-Atlantic security. […]

US troops should always be in Lithuania – McCain

December 29, 2016 BNS EN 0

US troops should be stationed in Lithuania at all times, US Senator John McCain said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]

Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis at the DELFI TV conference

Minister of Defence on his plans for national defence infrastructure

December 29, 2016 DELFI 0

Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the taint of corruption, but the former diplomat tells Delfi TV that in the end he decided to operate on the idea of “If need be, then so be it”. […]