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Defence
MEP suggests writing into Constitution how much Lithuania must spend on defence
Member of the European Parliament Petras Auštrevičius has raised the idea of including Lithuania’s commitment to spend 2 percent of GDP on defence into the Constitution. […]
Defence
Lithuania tightens rules for border guards’ travels abroad after intelligence reports
Following a warning issued by intelligence agencies about the efforts to recruit Lithuanian border guards in Belarus, the chief of the State Border Guard Service has tightened the rules for their travels abroad. […]
Society
Banning Russian TV channels won’t solve propaganda problem, Lithuanian experts say
Lithuania banned a Russian TV channel, RTR Planeta, last week, becoming the first European Union member state to take this step in an attempt to tackle what it calls Russia’s information war. However, even supporters of the move say that bans alone will not solve the problem. […]
Defence
Lithuanian army expects to have German howitzers next year
Lithuania’s Armed Forces expect to receive artillery systems from Germany in 2016. […]
Defence
Foreign affairs
Defence
Exercise involving 450 troops from NATO countries starting in Lithuania
An international exercise Fire Thunder 2015 is starting in Lithuania on Monday, involving about 450 troops from Lithuania, the United States, Poland and Portugal. […]
Defence
Over 200 Lithuanians volunteer for military service
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday that over the last two weeks a total of 206 citizens had volunteered to sign up for a 9-month military service, including 9 women. […]
Defence
Lithuanian army hands over 500,000 munitions to police
The Lithuanian army‘s Logistics Board handed over about 500,000 munitions for automatic weapons to the police at an arsenal in Linkaičiai on Thursday. […]
Foreign affairs
5 more Ukrainian troops come to Lithuanian hospitals
Another five Ukrainian soldiers injured in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine have arrived for treatment in hospitals of Lithuania. […]
Defence
US tanks to participate in combat firing exercise in Lithuania
US troops currently in Lithuania will Wednesday perform the first combat firing with main combat tanks M1A2 Abrams, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
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Putin’s week-long disappearance: checking if Russia can fight two and a half wars at once
Russia is successfully implementing military reform whose purpose is to have the capability to fight two and a half military conflicts concurrently. That is, the Russian armed forces must be able to fight two of any type of military conflict and at the same time participate in a peacekeeping operation alone or together with international forces using only standby military capabilities. […]
Defence
Lithuanian State Defence Council wants additional EUR 150m in defence spending
Lithuania’s State Defence Council has proposed raising the 2016 defence budget by further 150 million euros. […]
Defence
Portuguese scouts in Lithuania for combined training
On 31 March, soldiers of the Portuguese Armed Forces arrived in Lithuania for combined training as part of NATO reassurance measures in the Baltic region, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
Defence
1,600 conscripts to be drafted in August-September
Chairman of the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee, Artūras Paulauskas, says that the first conscripts, around 1,600 of them, will be drafted in August-September. Another 1,400 should be drafted in November-December and thus the total number will stand at 3,000. […]
Defence
Foreign affairs
Lithuania to set up defence adviser positions at embassies
The government on Wednesday okayed the amendments on the establishment of positions of defence adviser at Lithuanian embassies abroad. […]
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. […]
Defence
Lithuania’s chief of defence: Five lessons to be learned from conflict in Ukraine
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. […]