Last week NATO fighter jets protecting the Baltic airspace were scrambled ten times to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace on the way to or from mainland Russia and to the Russian region of Kaliningrad. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė conferred the rank of Lieutenant General on Chief of Defence Jonas Vytautas Žukas at the President’s Office on Monday morning. […]
The Saber Strike 2015 exercise held in the Baltic states by NATO has nothing to do with the Alliance’s alleged preparations for some annexation, says the chief of the training, US Major General Mark McQueen. […]
A demo military operation was performed in the Gaižiūnai training ground, central Lithuania, on Thursday in the framework of NATO’s Saber Strike 2015 exercise, observed by Lithuania’s president and generals of NATO countries. […]
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. […]
Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, on Thursday proposed discussing the possibility to restore conscription for an indefinite period of time. […]
Lithuania plans to spend 1.46 percent of its GDP on defence next year, the country’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says. […]
Lithuania and the United States intend to sign an intergovernmental agreement on closer military cooperation. […]
Lithuania’s defence minister has been forced to reassure that the country’s military does not discriminate against gay men after an army psychiatrist claimed that homosexuality was an exclusion criteria in selecting servicemen. […]
The request made by the Baltic states to station a military brigade is currently being processed in the military sense, with the final decisions to be made by politicians, Commander US European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Philip Breedlove said in Lithuania on Tuesday. […]
Intensive preparations for the deployment of US weaponry in Lithuania are underway and American experts have already been in the country to evaluate the situation, says Valdemaras Sarapinas, chief adviser to the Lithuanian president on national security. […]
By threatening to respond to the United States‘ plans to deploy heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe, Russia is trying to cover its aggressive action and is confusing “the cause and effect,” Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says. […]
Sergeant Rolandas Nakvosas is the Squad leader of the 2nd Surveillance Squad of the Heavy Artillery Company, King Mindaugas Hussar Battalion of Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s police on Monday launched a pre-trial investigation into the recent hacking of the website of Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. The website itself is now shut down for upgrading. […]
The decision to station American weaponry in Eastern Europe, including the Baltic states, is an outcome of the Wales agreements, and Lithuania supports, welcomes and looks forward to the decisions, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
US media reports about deployment of heavy weaponry in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia along with some other Eastern European nations are correct, says Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, adding that the equipment will contribute to regional security and serve as yet another measure to deter Russia. […]
Following US media reports that the Pentagon may station heavy weapons for its troops in several Eastern European and Baltic countries, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Sunday that these proposals are part of a US Congress-approved program to step up security in Eastern and Central Europe and that such weaponry would substantially change the security situation in Lithuania and throughout the region. […]
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