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Lithuania allocates additional 13 million to national defence

July 30, 2014 ELTA EN 0

On Wednesday, the Lithuanian Government approved of allocating additional LTL 45 million (EUR 13 million) from the Privatisation Fund to national defence. This sum is a part of an agreement to allocate LTL 130 million (EUR 38 million) to national defence this year. […]

Lithuania's Deputy Minister of National Defence Antanas Valys on Monday presented the National Defence System Medal of Merit to the outgoing French Defence Attaché Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Luc Lopez

Lithuanian-French defence cooperation in spotlight during defence attaché changeover ceremony in Vilnius

July 29, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of National Defence Antanas Valys on Monday presented the National Defence System Medal of Merit to the outgoing French Defence Attaché Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Luc Lopez for his personal contribution to the development of cooperation between the French and the Lithuanian Armed Forces. The officer was representing the interest of the French Armed Forces in Lithuania since August 2011, the Ministry of National Defence says. […]

NATO airmen report growing Russian activity in Baltic airspace

July 28, 2014 BNS 0

Polish aviators, who are heading the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states for the fifth time, say that they are faced with growing activity of the Russian Air Forces. […]

Grybauskaitė pledges to monitor defence spending closely

July 25, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has pledged to monitor whether additional funds recently allocated to national defence are spent transparently and effectively. […]

Lithuania’s new chief of defence sworn into office

July 24, 2014 ELTA EN 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has inaugurated the new Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas during a formal change of command ceremony on Thursday in the Cathedral Square, Vilnius. […]

Senior presidential aide appointed to head Lithuania’s State Defence Council

July 24, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has appointed her senior adviser Valdemaras Sarapinas as the head of the State Defence Council. […]

Lithuania’s new chief of defence lists threats to national security

July 24, 2014 BNS 0

Major General Jonas Vytauats Žukas is to be sworn in as Lithuania’s chief of defence on Thursday. In an interview to the weekly Veidas, Žukas says that the country must be prepared for sneaky tactics from its enemies and have better-trained, if smaller, armed forces. […]

Lithuanian army to purchase infantry combat vehicles

July 21, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Armed Forces will purchase infantry combat vehicles in the framework of modernization of its Land Forces, the Defense Ministry has announced on Monday. […]

Lithuanian rotation actively preparing for standby for EU Battlegroup next year

July 19, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Fifty members of the Grand Duchess Birutė Uhlan Battalion are continuing training for a standby for the European Union Nordic Battlegroup (EU BG) in the first semester of 2015 which is going to be formed by Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]

Lithuanian - USA military drill in Klaipėda region

NATO officer: exercise in Lithuania will be larger, adapted to Russian action

July 18, 2014 BNS EN 0

Exercises in Lithuania and NATO‘s other Eastern member-states will be larger and adjusted to the Russian actions in Ukraine, NATO’s Joint Forces Headquarters officer Lieutenant Colonel Hans Houf said in Vilnius on Friday after his team inspected Lithuania’s military infrastructure. […]

NATO officials visit Lithuania’s Klaipėda seaport

July 17, 2014 BNS 0

Integration team of the NATO Joint Force Headquarters Brunssum (the Netherlands) visited the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda, the port’s directorate said on Thursday. […]

Lithuania’s military infrastructure assessed by Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum’s team

July 16, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

On 12-20 July, a NATO Forward Integration Team (NFIT) from Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Brunssum (the Kingdom of the Netherlands) is visiting military units, ranges, and facilities in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence announces. […]

New Riflemen’s Union commander wants to increase enrollment to 10,000

July 16, 2014 DELFI EN 0

On Friday, 11 July, in the garden of Kaunas Vytautas Magnus Museum, the new commander of the Riflemen Union was been officially sworn in. The reserve’s Colonel Antanas Plieskis officially ceded leadership of the union to Colonel Lieutenant Liudas Gumbinas, and the newly appointed commander is already planning for the future. […]

Lithuanian and US troops hold joint training in urban warfare

July 15, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Dust in the training range, another day wearing out with the heat of July, a bulletproof jacket weighing down your shoulders with its 20 kg, your helmet suddenly heavier and rivers of sweat running down your face and body… […]

Canada to send 6 fighter jets to Lithuania

July 12, 2014 BNS 0

Six CF-18 fighter jets of Canada will join NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission in Lithuania in September, the country’s government has announced. […]

Would 2 percent GDP protect Lithuania from Russian aggression?

July 11, 2014 www.lrt.lt 0

Some experts call the current tensions between Russia and the West the new Cold War. Meanwhile, NATO countries, especially the ones that are on the outskirts of the Alliance, are concerned about the lack of funding for defence. Would two per cent of the GDP, in the face of Russian aggression, be enough to repel the fully armed eastern neighbour, should the need arise? […]