Administration of Lithuania’s northern city of Šiauliai has banned Avia Solutions Group from repairing airplanes in the near-by Zokniai airport, which accommodates NATO fighter-jets performing the Baltic air policing mission. […]
NATO‘s Military Committee on Thursday gave a green light to the establishment of international military staffs in Lithuania and five other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and will submit the proposal to defence ministers, Lithuania’s Chief of Defense Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas confirmed to BNS. […]
The United States and its allies should deploy troops to Baltic states to deter Russia from staging a possible incursion in those countries, former presidential national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, told lawmakers Wednesday, AFP reports. […]
On 21 January, in Riga, the Informal Meeting of European Union Defence Policy Directors agreed that the European Union and NATO had to cooperate in providing response to threats of hybrid warfare, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
On 20 January, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Canadian Defence Minister Robert Nicholson at Canada‘s National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Both ministers addressed a number of common security and defence issues, including joint efforts to support Ukraine. […]
On 16 January, NATO fighter jets conducting the Baltic Air Policing Mission were scrambled to identify and intercept an aircraft which was flying over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea without a pre-filed flight plan. […]
On 15 January, a delegation of the Ministry of Defence of Canada headed by Director General of International Security Policy Department Rear Admiral Gilles Couturier conducted a visit to the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania. […]
At a meeting with NATO‘s Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius called for rapid implementation of the decisions made at the Alliance’s Wales summit. […]
Former deputy minister of foreign affairs Vytautas Leškevičius has been proposed as Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO. […]
Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd and effective leader everyone, friends and foes alike, take him to be. On the contrary, she says, the Russian president is a shallow mediocrity who has not got a clue how to avert his country’s imminent collapse. […]
Russian military airplanes have become less active at borders of the Baltic states, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence says. […]
On Thursday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed a decree recalling Lithuania’s Ambassador to NATO Kęstutis Jankauskas from the post. […]
NATO airmen guarding the air space of the Baltic states enjoyed a calm holiday period over the last weeks of 2014. According to data provided by the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence, NATO fighter-jets were not scrambled once in response to flights close to the borders of the Baltic states between 22 December and 4 January. […]
Lithuania, as an active member of international community – NATO, the European Union, the United Nations – this year is planning to participate in six multinational operations and missions, about 100 Lithuanian troops will be deployed abroad, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Having arrived in Lithuania to conduct the Baltic air policing mission for the first time, Italian troops say they are prepared to prevent any violations. […]
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