Portugal
Defence

Portugal’s defence chief arriving in Lithuania

Chief of the General Staff of the Portuguese Armed Forces General Artur Neves Pina Monteiro is arriving in Lithuania on Monday for an official visit at the invitation of Chief of Defence of Lithuania Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas. […]

Jens Stoltenberg
Defence

Lithuania-based NATO headquarters to have staff of 40 led by Danish officer

NATO defence ministers on Wednesday in Brussels finalized details on the six small headquarters to be set up in Eastern European countries. They will have 40 members of personnel each. The Lithuanian unit will be headed by a Danish officer. […]

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Defence

Lithuania to increase number of professional troops

The number of professional troops in the Lithuanian army will grow by more than a thousand, and discussions on the number of conscripts have been postponed until the fall after the Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday endorsed the principled structure of the country’s army in 2016. […]

Darius Jauniškis
Defence

Attempts to recruit Lithuanian citizens by foreign secret services intensifying, security chief says

Attempts to recruit Lithuanian citizens by foreign secret services, as well as cyber spying incidents, are intensifying, Darius Jauniškis, director general of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD), says. […]