The West must tighten the existing sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow’s and pro-Russian separatists’ failure to comply with the Minsk agreement, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Wednesday called on other countries to help arm the Ukrainian army which is fighting against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday flew to the military operation zone in Ukraine‘s eastern regions, reports Ukrainian media. […]
Lithuania’s representative at the United Nations (UN) Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė has strongly criticized Russia for supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine, emphasizing the right for Ukrainians to defend their land amid the continued siege of the city of Debaltseve. […]
The truce that came into force on Sunday night in Ukraine is an important step towards the resolution of the ongoing conflict, but the situation in the east of the country remains complicated, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
A Lithuanian-run heating company in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk came under fire on Friday night. Artemovsk Energiya, part of the Lithuanian E Energija group, provides heating for Artemovsk. It sustained minor damage during the incident. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader and honorary chairman of the conservative Homeland Union, says that the Minks agreement for ceasefire between Kiev’s forces and Moscow-supported separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, which was signed on Thursday, is worse than the Munich agreement of 1938. […]
The Minsk talks, which ended on Thursday in an agreement on ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, have proven that the “war button is pushed” in Moscow, says a lecturer at Vilnius University’s International Relations and Political Science Institute Vytis Jurkonis. He emphasized the importance of putting the agreements into practise, as earlier cases have shown that Russia is less than a trustworthy partner. […]
The four-way negotiations in Minsk failed to settle the key issue on control of Ukraine‘s borders, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
It’s too early to speak about real progress in eastern Ukraine following the Minsk talks as it’s still not clear whether the agreements reached will be implemented, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says, adding that no final decisions have been made on key issues. […]
The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be “bad” or “very bad”, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, commenting on the talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine that continue in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday. […]
As four-way peace talks over the conflict in Ukraine have been ongoing in Minsk, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius believes the main task is to reach an agreement on the control of the international border between Ukraine and Russia. […]
Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius has once again called upon the World Bank’s president to upgrade the status of the three Baltic states in this institution from emerging to developed countries. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she does not have high hopes for the Minsk peace talks, which are starting on Wednesday and will focus on working out a solution for Russia‘s undeclared war on Ukraine. […]
While Ukraine‘s government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbass region, Western leaders are engaging in a tense diplomacy game with Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited United States President Barack Obama in the White House on Monday. The visit, which had been planned for some time, saw both leaders discuss a wide array of trade and security issues. The recent developments in Ukraine, with Russia destabilizing the country, dominated a large part of the talks and the hour-long joint press conference that followed. The press conference was attended by Vice-President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Ambassador Susan Rice. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said after arrival at the meeting of European Union’s (EU) foreign ministers on Monday that the West would make a mistake by tiptoeing around Russia, saying that the possible US arms supply to Ukraine would be a sensible step. […]
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