After the State Defence Council decided that conscription of 19-26-year-olds should be reintroduced for a 5-year period and as the Seimas is preparing to consider the issue, Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says Lithuania has learned five lessons from the conflict in Ukraine. […]
The first part of US heavy military equipment to be used in combined training with Lithuanian troops on Sunday was delivered to the Gaižiūnai railway station in the district of Jonava, in the central part of the country. […]
The first lesson of national security will be held in schools across Lithuania on Friday. […]
Polish and Estonian chiefs of defence on Thursday welcomed the Lithuanian plans of reintroducing conscription, emphasizing that the move would allow reinforcing the Armed Forces amid the Russian threat. […]
The Italian Typhoon fighter jets, stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission, were scrambled on Thursday to accompany a Russian plane. […]
Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces General Mieczyslaw Gocul arrived in Lithuania on Wednesday on a formal visit to discuss points of defence cooperation and security situation in the region. […]
On 2-5 March, arms control inspectors of the Lithuanian Armed Forces will take part in an inspection of a specified area in Azerbaijan as part of a Spanish-led inspection team, the press service of the Armed Forces said. […]
New Belgian-manufactured FN SCAR-H PR precision rifles were brought to Lithuania on Monday, the country’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
On 29-30 January, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas is attending the annual Nordic-Baltic Chiefs of Defence meeting in Kongsvinger, Norway, Lithuania’s Armed Forces said. […]
Lithuania and Ukraine signed a bilateral cooperation plan for 2015 in Kiev on Wednesday. The document was signed by Lithuanian Vice Minister of National Defence Marijus Velička and Lieutenant General Leonid Holopatiuk, deputy defecse minister of Ukraine, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement. […]
On 20 January, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Canadian Defence Minister Robert Nicholson at Canada‘s National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Both ministers addressed a number of common security and defence issues, including joint efforts to support Ukraine. […]
Lithuanian Air Force transport plane Spartan carrying seven Ukrainian soldiers injured during anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine is landing at Vilnius International Airport on Friday evening. […]
Lithuania, as an active member of international community – NATO, the European Union, the United Nations – this year is planning to participate in six multinational operations and missions, about 100 Lithuanian troops will be deployed abroad, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
The first shipment of the Polish-made air-defence missile systems GROM have arrived in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
On 10-12 December, Chief of Staff of the Danish Army Major General Hans Christian Mathiesen will be paying a visit to Lithuania. […]
After identifying persons who spied for Belarus, Lithuania’s special services attempted, unsuccessfully, to re-recruit them, says the State Security Department‘s Director General Gediminas Grina. […]
Purchased for arming the Lithuanian Armed Forces and enhancing defence of its subdivisions and objects against air attacks, the first portion of man-portable air defence system (MANPADS) GROM is due to arrive in Lithuania by the end of this year. Four Lithuanian soldiers are currently deployed in Poland for learning to operate the system, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
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