NATO‘s military exercises of this size and scale are an important part of the Alliance’s deterrence plan and send a clear message to aggressors that NATO is united strong and ready to defend each of its member nations, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said. […]
The political will to defend one’s country is what matters most and comparing capabilities is a pointless thing to do, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
The Lithuanian military is buying 168 armored personnel carriers from Germany for around 1.6 million euros in total. […]
Candidate for Lithuania’s defence minister, diplomat Raimundas Karoblis, supports the idea of introducing mandatory conscription to the Armed Forces. […]
Three German solders were slightly injured when several shells landed near them during mortar fire drills as part of the Iron Sword 2016 multinational exercise, the Lithuanian military said on Thursday. […]
As Lithuania marks the Day of Armed Forces on Wednesday, the country’s leaders and top military officers noted the enhanced national and NATO defense capacities amid the continuing dismay over Russia. […]
Ričardas Sartatavičius has been appointed as the new director of the Lithuanian Defence and Security Industries Association. […]
The deployment by Russia of new missiles in its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad is aimed at restricting access for NATO allies’ ships to the Baltic countries, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. […]
The Lithuanian Defence Ministry does not say why it did not make use of the so-called offset mechanism in the procurement of Boxer infantry fighting vehicles, thus not giving local businesses a chance to earn at least 60 million to 80 million euros, the business daily Verslo Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]
A group of arms control inspectors from Kazakhstan and Belarus are to visit this week military training areas in Lithuania and the Iron Sword 2016 multinational exercise that is currently underway in the country, the Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]
NATO air-policing jets were last week scrambled from Lithuania twice to identify and intercept Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea. […]
Should Lithuanian politicians decide to introduce general conscription, preparations would take at least four years and require more funding, experts say. […]
On Friday the BBC published a text on the fate of the Baltic States with Donald Trump taking power in the United States. The publication points out that Lithuania is afraid of potential Russian aggression […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has expressed his concern about what moves Russian may make in the weeks before Donald Trump becomes US president. […]
Lithuania’s parliament restated its plans to meet the commitment to NATO in terms of raising defence funding and reasserted the importance of strategic partnership with the United States. […]
Lithuania’s media watchdog decided on Wednesday to suspend the broadcasting of the Russian TV channel RTR Planeta for three months for inciting war, discord and hatred toward nations. […]
About 4,000 Lithuanian and Allied troops will attend Iron Sword 2016 exercise held in Lithuania in late November through early December, the Defence Ministry said. […]
Seventy-one percent of Poles think that their country should defend the Baltic countries if they were attacked, according to a public opinion poll published by the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita. […]
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