Trucks on the Belarussian border
Defence

Trucks stuck, balloons from Belarus continue to fly: “Lithuania has shot itself in the foot”

The border with Belarus was opened at midnight on Thursday, but Lithuanian carriers are still not allowed to leave, Aurimas Perednis states on Žinių Radijas programme. According to the leaders of the National Carriers Association […]

Zapad 2013 Russian military 'lands' on the shores of Kaliningrad
Defence

Antanaitis: ‘The Russians will want to test us’

“First of all, these exercises are intended to demonstrate their power. The Russians are beginning to appear to the world and NATO as a weak link, a weak state. The Russians need to flex their […]

Mindaugas Sinkevičius, Gintautas Paluckas
Politics

After Paluckas’ resignation – political scientists’ verdict: what next?

Lithuania is left without a prime minister – on Thursday, scandal-ridden Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas finally resigned, Agnė Liubertaitė states in lrytas. Political scientists say that this decision is essentially a good one, albeit belated. […]

USA flags
Defence

Prosecutor’s Office announces the fate of the four missing US soldiers: death investigation launched, still silence from the services

On March 31 morning, Minister of National Defence Dovilė Šakalienė announced that an M88 armoured personnel carrier had been pulled out of the swamp at the Pabradė training ground at night and stressed that she […]