Lithuanian Special Operations Forces Archives

Partisans of the Žemaičiai and Kęstutis District. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania

Lithuanian Special Operations Forces: the origins of guerrilla warfare

January 10, 2023 lrytas.lt 0

The Special Operations Forces (SOP) of the Lithuanian Armed Forces were officially established 21 years ago, on 17 December 2001. Still, the real origins of the SOP go back to 1944, when, after the arrival […]

Lithuanian SOF "Aitvaras" in Afghanistan

Lithuania’s Special Operations Forces going back to Afghanistan

February 22, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania has decided to bring back its Special Operations Forces (SOF) to Afghanistan after nearly three years to join the NATO operation Resolute Support that is intended to train and support local security forces. […]

Lithuanian troops during the flag raising ceremony in Vilnius 2017

400 Lithuanian troops begin standby duty in NATO Response Force

January 3, 2017 BNS EN 0

Around 400 Lithuanian troops this month are starting their standby duty in the NATO Response Force (NRF) and the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), the Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]

Lithuania considers buying combat helicopters – new DefMin

December 30, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuania considers purchase of combat helicopters, says the country’s new Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis. […]

Lithuania's flag with NATO's flag showing through it

700 Lithuanian troops will serve in NATO and EU rapid response forces in 2016

December 30, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On 1 January 2016, about 700 Lithuanian soldiers with infantry equipment and vehicles will begin to stand by for the NATO and EU rapid response forces. […]

Complicated Sino-Lithuanian relationship

October 1, 2024 0

As the Seimas elections approach, more parties, especially opposition parties, promise to change their foreign policy. The most significant change, in their view, is in relations with China. The opposition believes that seeing China as […]

Economist speaks out about the unstoppable rise in prices: ‘It’s getting a bit scary’

September 24, 2024 0

Prices in Lithuania decreased by 0.5% over the month, but annual inflation is again approaching the 1% mark. The most significant price increases over the year were in cafes and restaurants – nearly 9%. Some […]

Who could have thought? Germans give us a brigade, we give them electricity

September 20, 2024 0

Rokas Masiulis, the Head of the electricity transmission operator Litgrid, was one of the energy experts who, at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, calmly and even optimistically looked to the future: Lithuania would […]

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

September 16, 2024 0

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Grybauskaitė effect? Among the candidates for Prime Minister, there is also an option that has not yet been named out loud

September 13, 2024 0

With the parliamentary elections just a month away, party leaders are already working out, in public and behind closed doors, the scenarios for the foundations of the future governing coalition and who will lead the […]

Lithuanians will have to open their wallets even wider: goods and services will become more expensive

August 30, 2024 0

According to TV3.lt, Swedbank economists raise their GDP growth forecast for Lithuania and believe the Lithuanian economy will grow the fastest among the Baltic States this year and next. Inflation will likely rise next year, […]