The NATO air-policing mission carries huge symbolic value, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said at the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Wednesday. […]
Commenting on the discrepancies between the defence funding figures provided by different institutions, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that additional funding for defence will be strictly used according to NATO standards. […]
The police of Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, have thanked two soldiers of the Canadian Royal Air Force serving in the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states for providing assistance to a victim of a transport accident. […]
Lithuania is set to recall its Ambassador to NATO Kęstutis Jankauskas in the middle of January. The Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has already approved his recall as of 13 January. […]
The Christmas week was a calm period for NATO airmen serving in the air-policing mission in the Baltic states – the fighter-jets were not scrambled in response to aircrafts close to the Baltic borders on 22-28 December, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Four Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets of the Italian Air Force landed at the Air Base of the Lithuanian Air Force in the northern Lithuanian city of Šiauliai on Sunday as Italian troops are to take over responsibility for NATO’s Baltic air policing mission. […]
The first shipment of the Polish-made air-defence missile systems GROM have arrived in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
Fighter-jets of the NATO air-policing mission guarding the Baltic skies were last week scrambled once to identify and escort an aircraft of the Russian Federation. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday adopted amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, introducing fines for failure to obey a soldier’s orders. […]
Upon completion of the active duty in the NATO Response Force Lithuanian Naval ship LNS Jotvingis, a flag ship of Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group One (SNMCMG1), is returning to Klaipėda, Lithuania. Lithuanian Naval Officer Commander Giedrius Premeneckas will continue to command SNMCMG1 from this ship of Lithuanian Navy, which will be moored in Klaipėda Seaport up to the end of January 2015. […]
Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a package of legal amendments drafted by the Ministry of National Defence on the use of military force in peacetime, providing for a more specific regulation of the use of weapons, explosives and military equipment. […]
On 8-14 December, NATO air policing fighters protecting Baltic airspace took off 21 times to intercept Russian aircraft flying at the Baltic states’ borders, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Institutions of the Lithuanian interior system, namely, the State Border Guard Service, the Public Security Service and the VIP Protection Department, will be more actively involved in the training organized by the Armed Forces. […]
The first shipment of Polish air defence system Grom will arrive in Lithuania by the end of the year, perhaps even next week, said Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas after a Government meeting on Monday. […]
The Lithuanian military has cancelled higher level of readiness in its units on duty, the Rapid Response Force and some peacetime operations units, which was increased on 7 December. […]
The Baltic and Polish defence ministers held a meeting in Latvia and agreed on a joint response in deterring Russia, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement on Friday. […]
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