Around 40 troops will work at a NATO command unit that will soon be opened in Lithuania. Under the plan, representative of more than 10 NATO countries will work there, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on 25 August. […]
On 17-23 August NATO fighter jets conducting air policing tasks in the Baltic skies were scrambled twice to intercept aircraft in the international airspace above the Baltic states, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania reports. […]
The first 495 recruits are starting their mandatory initial military service at the Lithuanian Grand Duke Butigeidis Dragoon Battalion in Klaipėda on August 24 after the country reintroduced the nine-month service. […]
Speaking at an opening of a NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Latvia on Thursday, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė warned about the threats of propaganda. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will attend the opening of a NATO headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has revealed. […]
After completing two months of exercise and training with troops of the Grand Duchess Birutė Battalion in Alytus, US rotational troops will now continue their exercise in Panevėžys, northern Lithuania. […]
Preparations to receive conscripts is going smoothly and the biggest challenges is now faced by instructors, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Tuesday after evaluating preparations to receive conscripts in Klaipėda. […]
Lithuania’s army will hold two-week military training for 23 Ukrainian army instructors, the Baltic country’s Ministry of National Defence said on Tuesday. […]
NATO air policing fighter jets protecting the Baltic skies were scrambled five times last week to intercept aircraft flying in the international airspace over the Baltic states, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
Mine neutralization units of the Lithuanian Army are carrying out an operation in a swimming area in Totoriškių Lake near Trakai some 30km west of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. […]
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas has appointed Brigadier General Algis Vaičeliūnas as the ministry’s inspector general, the ministry said on Tuesday. […]
Six ice detectors used in aircraft are missing at the Lithuanian Air Force‘s Air Base in the northern city of Šiauliai. They are a source of radiation, the Ministry of National Defence said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian and US army logistics specialists are this week attending a logistics training in Lithuania and Poland. […]
Four attempts by foreign services to recruit officers of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service were documented in 2015, the service said on Friday. […]
Russia has no reason to interpret the reduction of the number of NATO aircraft in the Baltics as a sign of NATO’s weakness, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. The Alliance’s attention to the Baltic states has not declined, since patrolling of the Baltic airspace is just one aspect of NATO’s presence in the region, according to him. […]
NATO‘s Baltic air policing mission is being downsized alongside reinforcements in other security elements in the Baltic region and therefore is not significant, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Now is a bad time to reduce the number of fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of NATO‘s air policing mission, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of National Defence Marijus Velička says. […]
NATO‘s leadership decided to downsize the Baltic air policing mission in order to make rational use of resources, but Lithuania should not applaud it, as it reduces the Alliance’s visibility, says political scientist Gražvydas Jasutis. Meanwhile his colleague Kęstutis Girnius believes that the reinforcement has already served its purpose of reassuring the Baltic states and the decision makes good sense. […]
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