The first batch of upgraded communications equipment procured by Lithuania as part of the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI) and other foreign assistance funds was delivered to Karmelava Airport in central Lithuania on Wednesday. […]
The Bamako-based headquarters of the European Union Training Mission in Mali, where a Lithuanian officer is also serving, came under attack on Tuesday, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Wednesday. […]
Russia is the biggest threat to Lithuanian security and military aggression is no longer just a hypothetical possibility, according to the updated Military Strategy drafted by Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence. […]
Almost half the positions of this year’s military draft have already been filled by volunteers, according to Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence. If volunteers continue signing up at the present rate, there might not be any need to draft young men who have not come forward for the military service themselves, the ministry says. […]
Russian statements about maneuvers in Syria should be viewed with caution, says Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, adding that countries should wait for actions to prove them. […]
Diverging views on poetry has become an issue of a heated debate on history and censorship after Lithuania’s minister of defence denied a state award to an author whose analysis of the Soviet past did not match the minister’s own opinion. At the centre of the controversy is the poet Justinas Marcinkevičius whose name, for many, is synonymous with the country’s independence movement. […]
Lithuania will send six additional military police officers to NATO‘s mission in Afghanistan and a water purification unit and staff officers to the United Nations operation in Mali, the Ministry of National Defence told BNS on Tuesday. […]
“Dinner in the canteen: ‘Oh look, there’s cheese!’ – a soldier exclaimed. ‘No, its for the Americans,’ the chef answered strictly” – this was an exchange shared by Lithuanian journalist Ignas Krupavičius, who is currently serving as a conscript in the Lithuanian army. […]
The beginning of the year 2016 remains calm for NATO air-policing jets guarding the Baltic skies – they again were not scrambled to identify and intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation or other countries last week, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Over 250 soldiers and civilian staff of the armed forces are to take part in an international special forces exercise Flaming Sword this spring. […]
Over the past few years Lithuania has been buying plenty of new weaponry for its armed forces, but the purchase of ammunition reserves to go with them has not kept pace. […]
About 67% of the Lithuanian population fully or in part agree on the need to increase defence funding to 2% of the gross domestic product (GDP), shows a poll published by the Ministry of National Defence. […]
The Ministry of National Defence spent €20,000 supporting Lithuanian racer Benediktas Vanagas‘ participation in the prestigious Dakar Rally. […]
Lithuania could become a regional logistics centre for the US military, says Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
Lithuania sent over 200,000 packages of medication to Ukraine on Friday in response to a request by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health. […]
Three new Eurocopter helicopters, purchased by the Lithuanian Air Force, are to be put into use patrolling and performing rescuing operations. […]
The Lithuanian army is to buy 340 trucks produced by the German company Daimler AG in a deal worth €60 million, the Ministry of National Defence has announced. […]
Military conscription, which was reinstated in Lithuania last year, was one of the reasons behind a hike in emigration, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes. […]
When Lithuania had huddled up under NATO’s wing, it felt more secure and even unconcerned as to where it would get more funding for its army or how it could modernize it. The events in Georgia and Ukraine, however, jolted the Baltic country out of its lethargy and forced it to look at how it can strengthen its armed forces. […]
The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence is releasing lists of potential draftees on Monday. Last minute changes due to a technical error will not delay the release. […]
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