Lithuania’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says that the UK‘s decision to send army units to the Baltic states and Poland is a reaction to Russia‘s actions in the region, therefore Moscow’s statements about reciprocal steps are misleading. […]
Kęstutis Girnius, associate professor at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science, says Russia‘s intervention in Syria means that Moscow does not have any plans to attack Lithuania or other Baltic states. […]
Having a decent army reserve is very important for Lithuania, therefore conscription must remain in effect even after five years when the military draft programme, introduced this year, expires, according to President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
At Thursday’s NATO Defence Ministerial meeting in Brussels, UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced that the UK would deploy a persistent military presence to the Baltic states. […]
On 8-9 October, HMS Karlstad (K35) of the Royal Swedish Navy will conduct a friendly visit in Klaipėda seaport of Lithuania. The ship will be moored at the Klaipėda Cruise Ship and Warship Terminal, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė believes that the decision to temporarily reintroduce military conscription should extended indefinitely. […]
Spain, Italy and Portugal are hosting NATO military exercise Trident Juncture 2015, which kicked off on Saturday. Some 200 soldiers from Lithuania and almost 50 units of military equipment will join NATO’s biggest wargames since 2002, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
International military war games The Baltic Piranha are kicking of in Lithuania on Thursday that will involve troops from Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States. […]
Military equipment from Belgium and Luxembourg arrived in Lithuania’s port city of Klaipėda on Tuesday for use at the Baltic Piranha war games that will take place in Lithuania in October. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces on Tuesday signed a contract on procuring PzH2000 self-propelled howitzers from the German Armed Forces. […]
NATO fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of the air policing mission performed four scrambles last week to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation, flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea. […]
Belarusian and Swiss military representatives will this week check the weaponry available in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Fifty-two Belgian soldiers arrived in Lithuania on Monday, mainly logistics specialists who will prepare to host 270 more troops from Belgium and Luxembourg along with a few dozen pieces of military equipment arriving later this week. […]
Lithuania’s defence budget should expand by more than a third in 2016, according to the budget draft published on Monday. […]
Constructions of military infrastructure necessary for installation of new long-range radars and contracted for by the Lithuanian Armed Forces begins in the 1st (Antaversis village, Prienai district) and the 3rd (Degučiai village, Šilutė district) radiolocation posts of the Lithuanian Air Force, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
On 21 September, a delegation from the Pennsylvania National Guard (PANG) NCO corps headed by Command Sergeant Major Michael Gundrum paid a visit to the headquarters of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Force (NDVF). […]
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