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Baltic and Ukrainian defence ministers to discuss Ukraine assistance
The Baltic defence ministers are meeting with their Ukrainian counterpart Stepan Poltorak on Thursday and Friday. […]
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Defence
Eighty percent of volunteers fit for military service
Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas announced that 1,561 volunteers have signed up for service in the Lithuanian army by Monday morning, 25 May, and that the health commission examined the 500 of them. […]
Politics
Lithuanian defence minister apologises for poorly coordinated aircraft search operation
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas has apologised to families of the missing An-2 pilots for poorly coordinated search and rescue operation. […]
Society
Lithuania’s prosecutors to launch investigation into airplane search operation
Lithuania’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas turned to the Prosecutor General‘s Office asking to launch a pre-trial investigation into how the search and rescue operation of the aircraft An-2 and its crew was carried out. […]
Defence
Lithuanian defence minister to look into missing plane search operation
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas will visit the Navy‘s headquarters in the port city of Klaipėda on Wednesday to inspect the initial results and course of the efforts to locate the missing An-2 airplane and its two pilots, the ministry said. […]
Defence
Defence minister suggests Hungary to deploy troops in Lithuania
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, currently on a visit in Hungary, has suggested that the country should deploy troops in Lithuania and participate in international NATO exercises organized in the Baltic state. […]
Defence
Conscription notices to be sent to 37,000 men in Lithuania
Lists of conscripts have been complied at the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence on Monday. […]
Defence
2 military facilities to be built near Vilnius
Two new military facilities will be built near Vilnius, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian defence minister discusses cooperation with Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast officials
On 21 April, Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast City Viktor Anushkevychus and the Deputy Governor while on a visit with his delegation in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Western Ukraine), the Ministry of National Defence reported. […]
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Lithuania to send experts to Ukraine’s Defence Ministry
Lithuania plans to send its experts to Ukraine‘s Ministry of Defence, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas, currently in Kiev, said on Monday. […]
Lithuanian defence minister: NATO and Ukraine need more cooperation in security and defence
When attending the NATO Week opening event at the National University of Defence of Ukraine Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas underlined that the Russian war in Ukraine had become an alarm signal for the whole of Europe and NATO, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
Defence
Lithuanian defence minister and chief of defence to visit Ukraine
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas and Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas are leaving for Ukraine on Monday for an official visit. […]
Defence
Politics
Lithuanian parliament starts debating law amendments on conscription
The Seimas of Lithuania has started deliberating upon amendments to the Law on Military Conscription and the Law on National Defence System Organisation and Military Service. […]
Defence
100 volunteers register for military service in 10 days
More than 100 volunteers registered for initial mandatory military service over the first ten days, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said at the parliament on Tuesday in his presentation of the guarantees and privileges for conscripts. […]
Defence
Russia’s militarization of Kaliningrad – sign of forthcoming military stand-off?
Media around the world are increasingly focusing on Kaliningrad as the possible next site of Russian-Western confrontation, as Moscow keeps dispatching military equipment to its enclave squeezed between Lithuania and Poland. […]
Defence
US presence in Lithuania is a message that we are not alone, defence minister says
On April 2 Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with a delegation of US congressmen led by US Congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry, conducting visit in Lithuania, the Ministry reports. […]
Defence
Lithuanian defence minister wants conscripts’ families and employers fined for not passing summons
Parents, spouses and employers should be put under the obligation of handing conscription papers to persons liable to military duty, Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said in one of the proposals to the parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday. […]
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Defence
Germany to send over 500 troops to Lithuania for training this year
More than 500 German soldiers will come for combined training to Lithuania this year, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Tuesday. […]