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Lithuanian and American troops start joint exercise
Lithuanian and US army logistics specialists are this week attending a logistics training in Lithuania and Poland. […]
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Foreign services made four attempts to recruit Lithuanian border guards this year
Four attempts by foreign services to recruit officers of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service were documented in 2015, the service said on Friday. […]
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Air policing but one aspect of NATO presence in Baltics, Lithuanian minister says
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. […]
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Lithuanian president: NATO presence in Baltics still ‘unprecedented’
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. […]
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Lithuanian deputy defence minister: Bad time to cut NATO Baltic air policing
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. […]
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Lithuanian political scientists divided on NATO’s Baltic air policing mission downsize
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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Lithuania’s foreign minister: 8 jets perfectly enough to protect Baltic air space
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has downplayed NATO‘s plans to reduce the air policing mission in the Baltic states, saying that eight fighter-jets are perfectly sufficient for efficient protection of the air-space. In his words, rotations are planned for the coming five years. […]
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Investigators of Lithuanian army’s website hack seek assistance from abroad
After hackers broke into the website of the Lithuanian Army’s Joint Staff, Lithuanian prosecutors sent out requests for legal assistance to foreign countries. […]
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Downsize of NATO’s Baltic mission will not compromise security, Lithuanian minister says
NATO‘s decision to downsize the air policing mission by half will not affect the security of the three Baltic states, says Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
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NATO jets perform five scrambles to intercept Russian planes
NATO fighter jets, stationed in the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai as part of the Baltic air policing mission, performed five scrambles last week to intercept Russian military planes over the Baltic Sea. […]
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Lithuanian and American soldiers start training in Pabradė
A joint combat training event, scheduled to last for almost two weeks, is starting in the Lithuanian town of Pabradė on Monday and will involve more than 100 troops from Lithuania’s Grand Duchess Birutė Uhlan Battalion and around 80 American soldiers. […]
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NATO jets scrambled three times to accompany Russian planes over Baltic Sea
NATO fighter jets, stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission, were scrambled three times on Wednesday to identify and accompany Russian planes flying over the Baltic Sea. […]
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NATO jets alerted by Russian military plane over Baltic Sea
NATO air policing fighter jets were scrambled from Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, on Tuesday to identify a Russian military strategic transport airplane flying above the Baltic Sea. […]
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Lithuanian president appoints new deputy director of Security Department
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday appointed Remigijus Bridikis as the deputy director of the State Security Department. […]
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Increased activity of Russian warplanes reported above Baltic Sea near Lithuania
NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were scrambled seven times last week over Russian aircrafts. […]
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Portuguese troops leaving Lithuania after 4-month training
A company of Portuguese troops is leaving Lithuania this week after spending four months in the country in training. […]
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Lithuanian border guard helicopter off to mission in Mediterranean
Eurocopter 145 helicopter of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service is leaving for the Mediterranean region on Monday to join the operation Poseidon 2015 aimed at countering illegal migration. […]