Though German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė that Germany would contribute to the defence of the Baltic states, an opinion poll on Tuesday revealed that 57% of Germans think that their country should not send its soldiers to defend NATO members such as the Baltic countries or Poland if they were attacked by Russia. […]
NATO fighter jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic countries were scrambled three times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft, including bombers, flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
Over a dozen websites of Lithuanian public institutions were hit by a cyber attack last Thursday, but a more coordinated attack could cause serious damage, according to security experts. […]
A dozen state institutions had their information systems affected by a hacker attack. […]
A Lithuanian MP recently suggested that Russian soldiers may have landed on Lithuanian soil during a military exercise two years ago. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) has proposed restricting access to guns of individuals who are seen as posing a threat to national security. […]
As NATO and Russian officials are meeting for the first time in two years in Brussels on Wednesday, Lithuanian experts say Moscow will use the occasion to oppose NATO deployments in the Baltic States. […]
MP Artūras Paulauskas says his statements several weeks ago about a possible landing of Russian forces on the Lithuanian coast were “hypothetical”. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says he is sceptical about NATO‘s plans to hold the first official talks with Russia in two years this week. […]
On Saturday, the Lithuanian military announced that it would be preparing alternative dietary menus without meat, fish and dairy products. This decision was made after a survey of more than 1,300 conscripts, 29 of whom expressed an interest in alternative diets. […]
US European Command said on Sunday that a Russian jet had made aggressive manoeuvres near a US reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea, a second incident between Russian and American forces in the region in the past week, Reuters reports. […]
The United States and Germany say that NATO will not build any new bases in countries like Poland. […]
This striking photo of a Russian SU-24 attack jet passing within metres of the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea as it made its way to Lithuania made headlines in the Baltic region and around the world. […]
The incidents in the Baltic Sea this week where Russian jets buzzed an American warship were widely reported in the Western media and Lithuania should use the occasion to push for more military support from its NATO allies, according to a Lithuanian analyst. […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that US warship, the USS Donald Cook, would have been within its rights to shoot down the Russian warplanes which flew within metres of the destroyer in the Baltic. […]
On his visit to the United States this week, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas was assured by US politicians that Congress will approve the $3.4-billion-USD European Reassurance Initiative for 2017, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
The commander of the US warship buzzed by two Russian attack jets in the Baltic Sea has said that the US Navy will not cede space to Russian forces in the Baltic. He was speaking in Klaipėda where the USS Donald Cook has docked today. […]
Russian helicopters crossed into the Lithuanian territory from Kaliningrad on Tuesday. They were spotted visually, but not by a radar, the Ministry of National Defence has confirmed. […]
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