A new dormitory will be built at the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai to house foreign soldiers on short stays during redeployment, exercises and for the NATO air policing mission. […]
Sweden would defend Lithuania in case of a military attack, say Swedish experts, although they also acknowledge that after two centuries of neutrality, the country‘s military has such a reduced capability that some Swedes doubt that their armed forces would be sufficient to protect their own country. […]
Deputy US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has called on NATO allies to send more troops to the Baltic States to ensure that a battalion-strength force is present at all times. […]
Russia reported a significant strengthening of military forces in the west of the country which it said was to counter the threat of NATO from the Baltic States. […]
Lithuanian and foreign security policy experts are discussing mounting security threats and the upcoming NATO summit at the traditional Snow Meeting in Trakai district. […]
Russia‘s new National Security Strategy does not consider NATO as a threat, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday commenting on publications in Western media on the issue. […]
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. […]
The traditional Snow Meeting, an informal gathering of Lithuanian and foreign experts of security policy, is to be held on 14-15 January near Trakai. This year, the meeting will focus on preparing for the NATO summit in Warsaw this July. […]
Russian propagandists were not long ago deriding the inability of Baltic States to defend themselves but are now seeing something different: a threat to Russia. […]
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. […]
A Spanish NATO contingent is taking over the Baltic air policing mission from the military base near Šiauliai, Lithuania from Hungarian fighter jets on Thursday. Belgian jets will replace German jets in Estonia as part of the rotating mission over the Baltic States. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Ministry said that NATO jets patrolling airspace over the Baltic Countries scrambled 160 times to intercept Russian planes in 2015, up 14% on the previous year. […]
Alexei Venediktov, the editor-in-chief of Echo Moskvy, spoke to Delfi about the threat of escalation in the tensions between Russia and the Baltics. His radio station is considered by many to be the last major independent media outlet in Russia, and has run into trouble with Russian government media regulators in the past. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence has released data on interceptions of vessels and aircraft completed near the Baltic States‘ borders from December 21 to 27. Such reports, released every week or two, give insight into the frequency and nature of the Russian Air Force’s operations in the Baltic region. […]
Lithuania will send up to 130 soldiers to international missions in 2016-2017, parliament decided on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania is planning to buy 220 javelin anti-tank missiles, along with 74 launch units, from the United States at a cost of over €50 million. […]
Bringing Georgia closer to European but also Atlantic institutional structures continued to be one of Lithuania’s most important foreign policy objectives this year. Despite Russia’s creeping occupation efforts over the summer and the ramping up of its massive anti-Western propaganda machine, the small South Caucasus country is still firmly resolved to follow the Euro-Atlantic course. […]
Now that Europe is facing numerous crises and cannot focus its undivided attention on assisting Ukraine, it is important not to trade one issue for another, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said to LRT programme Savaitė. […]
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