The NATO air-policing mission carries huge symbolic value, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said at the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Wednesday. […]
Commenting on the discrepancies between the defence funding figures provided by different institutions, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that additional funding for defence will be strictly used according to NATO standards. […]
The police of Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, have thanked two soldiers of the Canadian Royal Air Force serving in the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states for providing assistance to a victim of a transport accident. […]
Russia is trying to justify its own aggression by mixing up the causes and consequences in its new military doctrine which names NATO as the key threat, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Monday. […]
Lithuania is set to recall its Ambassador to NATO Kęstutis Jankauskas in the middle of January. The Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has already approved his recall as of 13 January. […]
The Christmas week was a calm period for NATO airmen serving in the air-policing mission in the Baltic states – the fighter-jets were not scrambled in response to aircrafts close to the Baltic borders on 22-28 December, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Four Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets of the Italian Air Force landed at the Air Base of the Lithuanian Air Force in the northern Lithuanian city of Šiauliai on Sunday as Italian troops are to take over responsibility for NATO’s Baltic air policing mission. […]
The news agency Bloomberg has included the Baltic states in the list of places in the world where geopolitical tensions could run high next year. […]
Fighter-jets of the NATO air-policing mission guarding the Baltic skies were last week scrambled once to identify and escort an aircraft of the Russian Federation. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to NATO Kęstutis Jankauskas has been appointed head of the European Union‘s Monitoring Mission in Georgia, the EU Council and the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s statements comparing NATO enlargement to the construction of a new Berlin Wall. […]
Upon completion of the active duty in the NATO Response Force Lithuanian Naval ship LNS Jotvingis, a flag ship of Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group One (SNMCMG1), is returning to Klaipėda, Lithuania. Lithuanian Naval Officer Commander Giedrius Premeneckas will continue to command SNMCMG1 from this ship of Lithuanian Navy, which will be moored in Klaipėda Seaport up to the end of January 2015. […]
On 8-14 December, NATO air policing fighters protecting Baltic airspace took off 21 times to intercept Russian aircraft flying at the Baltic states’ borders, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
The Baltic and Polish defence ministers held a meeting in Latvia and agreed on a joint response in deterring Russia, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement on Friday. […]
Up to 350 Lithuanian soldiers and civilians, working for the national defence system, will be able to take part in international operations as part of NATO’s Rapid Response Force, an EU battle group or NATO and EU military commands, under a resolution adopted by the Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday. […]
Poland‘s Minister of Defence Tomasz Siemoniak says that there has been “unprecedented” activity by Russia‘s navy and air force in the Baltic Sea region in recent days, AP reports. […]
The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence has denied the information that a US soldier died of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Lithuania. The false statement was disseminated to media outlets under the guise of the European Association for the Defence of Human Rights (AEDH). […]
The United States of America intend to earmark 13 million US dollars (EUR 10.6m) to infrastructure development of the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai next year. […]
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