As the Seimas of Lithuania, parliament, is set to discuss the proposed partial restoration of conscription, the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says it’s the only way to strengthen the Lithuanian army in the existing geopolitical situation. […]
A dead soldier has been found during a training event in Pabradė, eastern Lithuania, on Tuesday, the country’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that that if there are enough volunteers during this autumn’s drafting, no other citizens would be called to serve in the conscript army. […]
Five American Abrams tanks and several dozen other vehicles will be deployed in Lithuania, the Baltic country’s Ministry of National Defence confirmed on Monday. […]
Polish and Estonian chiefs of defence on Thursday welcomed the Lithuanian plans of reintroducing conscription, emphasizing that the move would allow reinforcing the Armed Forces amid the Russian threat. […]
The Italian Typhoon fighter jets, stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission, were scrambled on Thursday to accompany a Russian plane. […]
Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces General Mieczyslaw Gocul arrived in Lithuania on Wednesday on a formal visit to discuss points of defence cooperation and security situation in the region. […]
The Lithuanian army assured on Wednesday that conscripts would not be sent to international missions abroad, refuting rumours spread by the Russian media, which, the Lithuanian chief of defence says, are aimed at discrediting the idea of restoring military conscription. […]
The Baltic states are facing a real threat and must be prepared to independently withstand for at least three days in case of a military conflict until NATO allies arrive, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, when asked by foreign journalists about the planned restoration of conscription in Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian government on Wednesday backed a bill drafted by the Ministry of National Defence on the restoration of conscription. It will now go to parliament for further consideration. […]
Lithuania will participate in a regular NATO crisis management exercise CMX15 on Wednesday through March 10, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
The Lithuanian army‘s mine neutralization unit have neutralized two World War II-era German aviation bombs SC-250 in Pagėgiai, western Lithuania. […]
The Ministry of National Defence submitted to the Government amendments to the law on the principles of structure of the Armed Forces in 2015. It includes a plan to draft 3,000-3,500 men to compulsory military service. […]
The installation of surveillance equipment with Russian-produced seismic sensors has not been started yet. And its acquisition might be halted following the evaluation of risks, Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis says. […]
On 23 February – 1 March 2015, NATO fighter jets patrolling the Baltic airspace were scrambled to identify and escort aircraft flying near the Baltic states’ borderline in the NATO Baltic Air Policing Reaction Zone twice, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
On 2-5 March, arms control inspectors of the Lithuanian Armed Forces will take part in an inspection of a specified area in Azerbaijan as part of a Spanish-led inspection team, the press service of the Armed Forces said. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius both say they would not support the idea of making military service mandatory for women as well as men. […]
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