Polish and Estonian chiefs of defence on Thursday welcomed the Lithuanian plans of reintroducing conscription, emphasizing that the move would allow reinforcing the Armed Forces amid the Russian threat. […]
Lieutenant General Frederick Hodges, US army commander in Europe, accused Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, of seeking to destroy Nato, and warned that Russia could seek to use the sort of “hybrid warfare” seen in eastern Ukraine against a NATO member to test the alliance. […]
The Italian Typhoon fighter jets, stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission, were scrambled on Thursday to accompany a Russian plane. […]
The Baltic states are facing a real threat and must be prepared to independently withstand for at least three days in case of a military conflict until NATO allies arrive, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, when asked by foreign journalists about the planned restoration of conscription in Lithuania. […]
The installation of surveillance equipment with Russian-produced seismic sensors has not been started yet. And its acquisition might be halted following the evaluation of risks, Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis says. […]
Even after the death of a person, their ideas live on, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said during the funeral of one of Russia‘s opposition leaders, Boris Nemtsov, in Moscow on Tuesday. […]
On 23 February – 1 March 2015, NATO fighter jets patrolling the Baltic airspace were scrambled to identify and escort aircraft flying near the Baltic states’ borderline in the NATO Baltic Air Policing Reaction Zone twice, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
This is probably the most difficult piece in my life. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will attend the funeral of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov who was murdered in central Moscow on Friday, the minister’s spokesman Kęstutis Vaškelevičius confirmed to BNS. […]
Hundreds of Vilnius residents took part in a march in memory of murdered Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, expressing solidarity with people attending an opposition march in Moscow. […]
Any battle between the Russian state and its political opponents has always been an unequal contest, since the state brings an overwhelming superiority to such confrontations. This disparity is as true today as it was during the Soviet Union’s fight against dissidents and imperial Russia’s struggle against diverse revolutionary movements. […]
Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary filmmaker, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolthole outside the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching news in his hotel room. An anchor at one of the Kremlin-controlled news stations reported that Russia’s parliament had allowed President Vladimir Putin to use the army to protect his compatriots in other countries. In other words, they had legalized the annexation of Crimea and provided support for pro-Russian combatants in Eastern Ukraine. […]
The Russian aggression in Ukraine has shown that countries bordering Russia may need special forces, says the Lithuanian Defence Ministry’s Political Director Vaidotas Urbelis. […]
Russia has long attempted a campaign of mainly non-military means in Latvia consisting of numerous strategies taking place both in the country and its surrounding areas. These campaigns must be viewed in light of the severe military escalation in the Baltic Sea and in Eastern Europe, says Swedish analyst Jakob Ljungman in his recent report. […]
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