Last week, NATO fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission were scrambled five times to intercept Russian military aircraft flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
The NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states was cut down from September because more than half of the fighter-jets assigned to the mission had been standing idle for the past six months, says the head of the Alliance’s Military Committee General Petr Pavel. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, currently in Lithuania, says Ukraine‘s decentralization reform and the agreement to stop truce violations as of September is a new opportunity to ensure peace in Ukraine. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday opened the NATO Force Integration Units (NFIU) in Vilnius. This and five other NFIUs in Central and Eastern European countries have been set up in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Thursday officially announce the opening of the NATO Force Integration Units (NFIU) in Lithuania and five other Central and Eastern European countries that want greater NATO presence in the region to deter Russia. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will visit Vilnius on Thursday, 3 September. […]
Outgoing Norwegian fighter jets, which were stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO‘s Baltic air policing missions, were scrambled on Monday, their last day of service, to intercept two Russian planes flying over the Baltic Sea. […]
Troops of the Hungarian Air Forces are taking over NATO‘s Baltic air-policing mission for the first time, with an official contingent changeover ceremony involving Lithuanian and the Hungarian defence ministers planned at the Lithuanian Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Monday. […]
Speaking at an opening of a NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Latvia on Thursday, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė warned about the threats of propaganda. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will attend the opening of a NATO headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has revealed. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Latvia on Thursday to attend the official opening of the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (STRATCOM), her press service said. […]
After completing two months of exercise and training with troops of the Grand Duchess Birutė Battalion in Alytus, US rotational troops will now continue their exercise in Panevėžys, northern Lithuania. […]
NATO air policing fighter jets protecting the Baltic skies were scrambled five times last week to intercept aircraft flying in the international airspace over the Baltic states, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
Last Tuesday, NATO decided to reduce the number of fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of the NATO air policing mission. The number of fighter jets is to be cut from 16 down to 8. […]
Russia has no reason to interpret the reduction of the number of NATO aircraft in the Baltics as a sign of NATO’s weakness, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. The Alliance’s attention to the Baltic states has not declined, since patrolling of the Baltic airspace is just one aspect of NATO’s presence in the region, according to him. […]
NATO‘s Baltic air policing mission is being downsized alongside reinforcements in other security elements in the Baltic region and therefore is not significant, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Now is a bad time to reduce the number of fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of NATO‘s air policing mission, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of National Defence Marijus Velička says. […]
NATO‘s leadership decided to downsize the Baltic air policing mission in order to make rational use of resources, but Lithuania should not applaud it, as it reduces the Alliance’s visibility, says political scientist Gražvydas Jasutis. Meanwhile his colleague Kęstutis Girnius believes that the reinforcement has already served its purpose of reassuring the Baltic states and the decision makes good sense. […]
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