Defence
Lithuania publishes 2017 military conscription lists
The Lithuanian Defence Ministry published on Monday this year’s military conscription lists. […]
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Defence
Lithuania updates security strategy
Lithuania’s updated National Security Strategy will highlight corruption and social exclusion as threats, the chairman of the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence said on January 9. […]
Defence
Lithuania blocks plans for data centre over links to Russia’s FSB
Lithuania’s authorities have taken steps to halt plans for building what would be the country’s largest data centre near Vilnius following an intelligence warning that it may be hooked up to a Russian spying centre. […]
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Analyst – arrival of US Special Forces is not a signal to the Kremlin
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 […]
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Peasants mull revising parliamentary agreement on defence
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. […]
Defence
Minister of Defence hopes all recruits to join voluntarily in 2017
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis hopes that all recruits will join the country’s Armed Forces voluntarily this year. […]
Defence
Seimas’ speaker: MPs should be safe from impact of foreign states
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. […]
Defence
Lithuania confirms deployment of US special operators
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. […]
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400 Lithuanian troops begin standby duty in NATO Response Force
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. […]
Defence
Attempts to track unsafe Internet devices soar in Lithuania in 2016
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. […]
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Defence
Lithuania should boost input to intl operations -Minister of Defence
Lithuania should increase its contribution to international operations, new Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis says. […]
Defence
McCain sees Lithuania’s move to raise defence spending as important signal
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. […]
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Lithuania considers buying combat helicopters – new DefMin
Lithuania considers purchase of combat helicopters, says the country’s new Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis. […]
Defence
Lithuanian border guards spot drone flight from Kaliningrad
Lithuanian border guards registered an unmanned aircraft entering the country’s territory from the Russian Kaliningrad region in early hours of December 29. […]
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McCain: Lithuania under threat, as Russia aims to restore empire
Lithuania is under threat, as resurgent Russia aims to restore its empire, US Senator John McCain said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Defence
President: US role remains trans-Atlantic security guarantee
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. […]
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US troops should always be in Lithuania – McCain
US troops should be stationed in Lithuania at all times, US Senator John McCain said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Defence
Minister of Defence on his plans for national defence infrastructure
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”. […]