A new spiral of NATO expansion directly affects Russia‘s interests and provokes a response, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a commentary released on Wednesday over NATO’s invitation to Montenegro to join the alliance. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius says that invitation extended this week to Montenegro to begin NATO membership negotiations is a signal not only to the Western Balkans but Georgia as well. […]
NATO must be ready to effectively respond to threats irrespective of their source, says Lithuania’s Linas Linkevičius at a meeting of foreign affairs ministers of NATO countries. […]
The threat of a hybrid war in Lithuania is real, it is Russia‘s strategy for the post-Soviet area and Lithuania needs to strengthen its defence system and host allied soldiers in the country to deter Russia, according to the US military analyst and the president of Jamestown Foundation Glen Howard. […]
General Philip Breedlove, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and Commander of US European Command, paid a short visit to Lithuania and said he has good understanding of the security situation in the Baltics. The general promised to do everything in his power to guarantee an appropriate response to any threat faced by a member state of NATO. […]
NATO has shown that its members will not tolerate violations of their airspace territorial integrity, Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius said to the Žinių Radijas radio. […]
On 20 November, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Minister of National Defence of Canada Harjit Sajjan while attending the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, the Lithuanian ministry reports. […]
According to Lithuania’s National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, Lithuania at the moment would be ready to accept 6,000-8,000 NATO troops without any major logistical issues. […]
Five national and international military exercises are planned in Lithuania in November. Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas, the Chief of Defence of Lithuania, says that these exercises, which involve thousands of soldiers and considerable military equipment, do not only show Lithuania‘s preparedness to defend itself, but also NATO‘s attention to collective defence in Eastern Europe. […]
Russia‘s actions in Europe, eastern Ukraine and Syria require more resolute response from NATO to ensure security of its eastern members, according to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė who is leaving for Bucharest on Wednesday to meet with leaders of Central-Eastern European NATO member states. […]
On 19-25 October, fighter jets conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states performed four scrambles to intercept aircraft flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania said. […]
On October 21 at a session of the Land Combat Vehicles (LCV) Support Partnership of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) in Luxembourg, Lithuania joined the PzH2000 self-propelled 155mm howitzer user project by a unanimous agreement of Croatia, Italy, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands – all the countries taking part in the project. […]
Military personnel from Lithuania and other countries of the NATO Alliance taking part in NATO Exercise Trident Juncture 2015 have redeployed to Spain, set up military camps in San Gregorio and are beginning to train according to the exercise scenario, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
In the latest article of this series (“Putin’s Russia. Kremlin’s Goal No. 1”) I analysed the theory and practice of Russian foreign policy trying to ground the thesis that Kremlin’s main goal is to undermine the EU and NATO, and bring the world back to the times of international power balance. […]
Logistics and movement control specialists of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and Mobile Refuelling Unit will provide logistical support to Lithuanian and allied troops taking part in NATO‘s Exercise Trident Juncture 2015 in Spain until 6 November, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
Lithuanian soldiers assigned to various units of the Lithuanian Land Force take part in a spectrum of multinational training events and military competitions in Germany, Latvia, Spain and the United Kingdom, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
On 13-14 October, NATO defence planning experts conducted a visit in Lithuania to assess the status quo of Lithuania’s defence capabilities and prospective defence reforms. NATO experts were particularly interested in the steps Lithuania made to respond to changing security situation in the region, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
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