The three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, will ask NATO leadership to deploy a permanent brigade in an effort to deter Russia, the Lithuanian army‘s spokesman said on Thursday. […]
The Lithuanian society clearly understands the treats coming from the East, however, the situation in Southern Europe require just as much attention, as wars are also possible there, says Lithuania’s Ambassador to NATO Vytautas Leškevičius. […]
NATO fighter-jets on an air policing mission were scrambled from Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, on Monday to accompany two Russian military transport airplanes. […]
A group of US soldiers have underlined NATO‘s collective defence commitment during their Friday visit to the Seimas of Lithuania. […]
Fighter-jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in Lithuania on Sunday identified and accompanied a Russian airplane flying over the Baltic Sea with its transponder switched off. […]
Air contingents conducting the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission will change over at a rotation ceremony at Šiauliai Airbase in Lithuania on Thursday. […]
I purposefully chose a title for my piece to evoke the notorious phrase from 1949 by the then US Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal: “The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. They’re right around. I’ve seen Russian soldiers.” […]
NATO air policing fighter-jets were on Tuesday scrambled from a base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, to accompany a Russian transport airplane en route to the Kaliningrad region. […]
Norway‘s two F-16 Fighting Falcons landed in the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Monday for the NATO air policing mission. […]
NATO fighter-jets guarding the Baltic skies were last week scrambled twice from Lithuania to identify and accompany Russian military airplanes flying close to the Baltic air-space, the Ministry of National Defence said on Monday. […]
The Lithuanian army will hold exercises to improve interoperability of Lithuanian institutions without the assistance of NATO allies, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said on Tuesday, presenting the upcoming national Exercise Lighting Strike 2015. […]
A two-day Baltic Region Air Training Event (BRTE XX) is starting in the Baltic airspace on Tuesday, involving fighter jets from Belgium, Spain, Italy, Poland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Germany. […]
When attending the NATO Week opening event at the National University of Defence of Ukraine Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas underlined that the Russian war in Ukraine had become an alarm signal for the whole of Europe and NATO, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
John Shimkus, the only US Republican congressman of close Lithuanian descent, says he is proud of Lithuania being such a staunch ally of the United States, with the ties deeply rooted in the two countries’ long-standing political, economic and cultural collaboration. […]
Responding to a joint declaration of the Nordic countries of intentions to step up military cooperation in the face of Russian aggression, Russia‘s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday, saying that moves by Finland and Sweden towards closer ties with NATO were of “special concern”, Reuters reports. […]
An international exercise Fire Thunder 2015 is starting in Lithuania on Monday, involving about 450 troops from Lithuania, the United States, Poland and Portugal. […]
Scaremongering is bad, but so is the wishful thinking which has fuelled the West’s approach to Russia for decades. So it is worth pondering what a world would look like in which we lose, and Vladimir Putin gets what he wants. […]
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