The Italian Typhoon fighter jets, stationed in the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission, were on Wednesday scrambled to accompany two Russian military transport aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea. […]
UNESCO experts have ended discussions on the issue of constructing a bridge between mainland Lithuania and the Curonian Spit. The delegation inspected the site in response to Russia‘s complaints, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
Vladimir Putin will not stop by himself, he needs to be stopped. And if he has no intention of stopping, there shouldn’t even be a mention of retreating. […]
The EU Commission has approved proposals to create a single European energy market. The Energy Union plan would give the Commission more influence in the negotiation of gas supply contracts. […]
With the flow of illegal goods from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad declining, the Lithuanian Customs this year plan to focus more on the border with Belarus. […]
Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA), says that the OSCE PA attitude towards Russia changed considerably during its winter session. […]
Great Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has joined the warnings made by other high-ranking officials about the possibility of the Baltic states being the next Russian target after Ukraine in an effort to test NATO‘s strength. […]
United States Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday accused Russian leaders of lying “to my face” about Moscow’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine and denounced what he called Russia’s “propaganda”, AFP reports. […]
Russia is threatening the Ukrainian state, but not the Ukrainian nation, which is being born in front of our eyes, says Lithuanian philosopher and former member of the European Parliament Leonidas Donskis. […]
They say that a so-called information war is raging and that we’re in it. A war is a war – there are friends and enemies, military action, military logic and discipline. […]
The agreements on a truce in Ukraine are not working as separatists, supported by Russia, continue attacks in eastern Ukraine, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said on Monday after discussing the existing situation with his Ukrainian counterpart. […]
Lithuania’s State Security Department said on Monday it observed “increasingly obvious” Russian attempts to instigate an information war and spread its propaganda in the Lithuanian media and social networks. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has condemned the terrorist attack carried out in Kharkiv on the Maidan anniversary, saying that the “cowardly attack” showed the world that violence is the only argument used by terrorists to defend their position. […]
The European Union has for many years believed that Russia was developing democratically, and even the Georgian war did not serve as a wakeup call, Ukrainian Ambassador to Lithuania Valery Zhovtenko says. […]
The United Kingdom and the European Union are guilty of a “catastrophic misreading” of the moods in the Kremlin prior to the crisis in Ukraine, which led to a failure to appreciate what was to come, a report by Britain’s parliamentary committee says. […]
There is no doubt who gained most from the deal reached in Minsk on February 12th to end the conflict in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a minimum, a frozen conflict will block Ukraine’s progress towards NATO and the EU; and if fighting resumes, the terms of the ceasefire will leave Ukrainian forces in a weaker position than now. […]
Another series of Russian provocations involving the Baltic states, related to the Ukraine war, makes so-called hybrid war scenario more and more realistic within the region of the Baltic Sea. The incidents that took place so far, such as the Internet existence of “People’s Republic of Vilnius” or the hooligan attacks on the Polish Embassy in Vilnius, seem to suggest that the Kremlin is going to use the Polish minority of Lithuania, along with the tough history of the Polish-Lithuanian relations, as the basis for its activities, aim of which would be to destabilize the region. […]
The Ukrainian request to deploy peace-keepers in its Eastern districts might be given theoretical consideration, if the situation stabilizes, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says, adding that this would require a change in Russia‘s negative stance. […]
The European security strategy does not reflect today’s realities and must be updated, says Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
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