Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says that defence ministers of the European Union countries perceive the threat of a hybrid armed conflict rising from the East and the need for the EU to be ready to repel this threat. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he does not believe that Moscow could use the same methods it used in Ukraine to destabilize situation in the Baltic states. His comments come after British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon warned about the danger that Russia might pose to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. […]
The West must tighten the existing sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow’s and pro-Russian separatists’ failure to comply with the Minsk agreement, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Wednesday called on other countries to help arm the Ukrainian army which is fighting against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. […]
Lithuania’s representative at the United Nations (UN) Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė has strongly criticized Russia for supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine, emphasizing the right for Ukrainians to defend their land amid the continued siege of the city of Debaltseve. […]
Gediminas Kirkilas, Deputy Speaker of the Lithuanian parliament and Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs, a social democrat, says he does not agree with the criticism of right-wing parties that accuse the European Union of being too soft on Russia. […]
Between 9 February and 16 February, NATO air policing fighter aircraft patrolling the Baltic airspace were scrambled four times to intercept aircraft flying along the route between Mainland Russia and the Kaliningrad Oblast in international airspace near the borders of the Baltic states, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Pro-Russian separatists are not keeping up with the truce terms, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says, stressing that Ukraine has to state the fact. He also hopes tighter sanctions against Russia from Western leaders. […]
The world is faced with a new challenge, while Ukraine is defending itself in a war waged by the Kremlin, says Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader and honorary chairman of the conservative Homeland Union, says that the Minks agreement for ceasefire between Kiev’s forces and Moscow-supported separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, which was signed on Thursday, is worse than the Munich agreement of 1938. […]
The Minsk talks, which ended on Thursday in an agreement on ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, have proven that the “war button is pushed” in Moscow, says a lecturer at Vilnius University’s International Relations and Political Science Institute Vytis Jurkonis. He emphasized the importance of putting the agreements into practise, as earlier cases have shown that Russia is less than a trustworthy partner. […]
The four-way negotiations in Minsk failed to settle the key issue on control of Ukraine‘s borders, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
It’s too early to speak about real progress in eastern Ukraine following the Minsk talks as it’s still not clear whether the agreements reached will be implemented, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says, adding that no final decisions have been made on key issues. […]
The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be “bad” or “very bad”, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, commenting on the talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine that continue in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday. […]
As four-way peace talks over the conflict in Ukraine have been ongoing in Minsk, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius believes the main task is to reach an agreement on the control of the international border between Ukraine and Russia. […]
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