NATO Air Policing mission in the Baltic states
Defence

Hungarian airmen coming on 1st air-policing mission to Lithuania

Troops of the Hungarian Air Forces with their JAS-39 Gripen fighter-jets are coming to Lithuania on Thursday for their 1st shift in NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. […]

On the military training in the Lithuanian Army
Defence

Lithuania’s 1st recruits starting service in Klaipėda

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. […]

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Defence

Ukrainian army instructors to undergo training in Lithuania

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. […]

Defence

Lithuanian military expert: NATO’s purpose is defence, not rearmament

When NATO confirmed last week that it was cutting the Baltic air policing mission in half – eight fighter jets will patrol the skies of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia instead of the current 16 – the reactions were varied. […]