The third event of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Baltic Assembly will be held in Šiauliai. The Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly will have a meeting in Šiauliai University on Friday, 13 February 2015, the Seimas press service said. […]
The Lithuanian army will expand its forces by 450 troops every year, the country’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Monday, presenting activity guidelines for the coming six years. […]
NATO fighter-jets deployed in Lithuania on the NATO Baltic air policing mission were scrambled twice last week to intercept aircraft that had entered the policed area, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
The Ministry of National Defence signed an agreement with the Lithuanian Defence and Security Industries Association. Based on the agreement, institutions of the national defence system and enterprises of the defence and security industry will strive for tighter cooperation. […]
On 5 February, the Spartan C-27 aircraft of the Lithuanian Air Force will transport to Ukraine donations of humanitarian aid committed by the Lithuanian Ministries of Healthcare and National Defence. […]
US arms control specialists will visit Lithuania this week to perform a training inspection flight under the Open Air Space Treaty. […]
On 3 February, director of the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (NATO ENSEC COE) Colonel Gintautas Bagdonas and deputy director-general of the Office for Foreign Relations and Information of the Czech Republic Jan Padourek signed a voluntary national contribution arrangement which will serve as a basis for the Czech Republic to join the NATO ENSEC COE, the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces should step up its artillery capacities by purchasing 155mm self-propelled howitzers, Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said on Tuesday. […]
New Belgian-manufactured FN SCAR-H PR precision rifles were brought to Lithuania on Monday, the country’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
On February 2 through 3 Commander of the Mechanised Infantry Brigade (MIB) Iron Wolf Colonel Raimundas Vaikšnoras is taking part in a conference arranged by the staff of the Danish Army Division in Copenhagen. Col Vaikšnoras, commander of a Latvian brigade and commander of an Estonian brigade will address cooperation of their respective units in combat training area and the contribution of the Danish Division to the training of the Baltic states‘ brigades, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
From 26 January to 1 February, NATO fighter jets conducting the Baltic Air Policing Mission were scrambled once in response to foreign aircraft approaching Baltic states‘ borders. […]
This week, Lithuania’s government intends to discuss draft laws on the Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian agreement to set up a joint military brigade. […]
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. […]
A manual prepared by the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence on what to do in case of war and accidents is to be distributed to school libraries across the country. […]
NATO fighter-jets conducting the Baltic air policing mission were scrambled three times last week. […]
Lithuanian servicemen escaped injuries during the suicide attack in the airport of Afghanistan‘s capital Kabul on Sunday. However, the blast shattered windows of their residential container, the Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
Lithuania officially ended over six-month long period of command of NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE (SNMCMG1). On January 22, Commander Giedrius Premeneckas (Lithuanian Navy) handed over command of SNMCMG1 to Commander Peter A.J. Bergen Henegouwen (Royal Netherlands Navy) at Den Helder naval base of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Lithuania’s Defense Minister Juozas Olekas on Friday met with Ukrainian soldiers undergoing treatment in the southern resort of Druskininkai, the ministry said. […]
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