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Lithuanian honorary consul kidnapped and killed in Luhansk

August 23, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian Honorary Consul in the Ukrainian region of Luhansk Mykola Zelenec was kidnapped and found dead after 12 days, Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas told BNS on Friday. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister in Ukraine: Russian convoy is “a provocation”

August 22, 2014 BNS 0

The entry of a Russian convoy into the territory of Ukraine is a provocation and a gross violation of international law, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said after meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Friday. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister says Ukraine could use international support better

August 22, 2014 BNS 0

Ukraine could use international leverage and provided support better, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said ahead of his visit to Kiev on Friday. […]

Opinion: Information war – no need for mobilization yet

August 22, 2014 DELFI EN 0

The heralds of information wars are disconcerted, identify ever more battlefields, call on proper mobilisation. The latest example is the response of Aleksandras Matonis to a report aired on the Russian TV, in which members of the expedition Mission Russia have been referred to as tourists following the traces of the WW II victims and reportedly hoping that in the future joint Russian-Lithuanian groups would be travelling Europe to pay homage to the fallen Soviet soldiers. The leader of the expedition said such hope was actually expressed by the Russian journalist. […]

Latvian MEP visits Lithuania to discuss latest developments in Ukraine

August 21, 2014 ELTA EN 0

European Parliament member Artis Pabriks (Unity) is visiting Vilnius on Thursday to participate in a discussion about the latest developments in Ukraine, Pabriks’ aide Inga Saleniece informed LETA. […]

More shelling in eastern Ukraine leaves residents scared

August 21, 2014 Reuters 0

Residents in the Russian speaking city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine survey the damages after the city comes under heavy shelling. […]

Maternity hospital turned into bomb shelter to protect babies in the midst of Ukraine’s battle

August 20, 2014 Reuters 0

The babies are blissfully unaware, but the basement of a maternity hospital in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk is now a bomb shelter for the newborns. […]

Winter and Gazprom won’t wait: What the geopolitics of LNG will mean for the people of Ukraine and Europe

August 20, 2014 Agnia Grigas 0

As the crisis in Ukraine is escalating with the prospect of Russian military intervention, there is every reason to believe that Vladimir Putin will use other weapons at his disposal. Thus European nations are increasingly – and justifiably – worried about the impending winter months when Russia could ratchet up the pressure on Europe, as it has done in the past, by imposing another gas halt with the consequent loss of life and negative economic impacts. […]

Opinion: Putin’s white shield for terrorists in East Ukraine

August 19, 2014 DELFI EN 0

On the night between 11 and 12 August, a convoy of 280 Kamaz trucks set out from Moscow to East Ukraine, loaded, according to the Moscow Oblast authorities, with humanitarian aid for civilian residents in the war zone. Even though the Russians immediately marked the convoy with the International Red Cross flags, the organization itself had no knowledge of it. It was not until 16 August that the Red Cross received the manifest of the shipment. […]

Zapad-2013: A view from Helsinki

August 19, 2014 The Jamestown Foundation 0

As a full-fledged war between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed irregulars rages on in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas, Western defence experts are only now beginning to thoroughly assess the military lessons of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. […]

Lithuania to give food and medical supplies to Ukraine

August 19, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Tuesday it would provide dried food rations and medical supplies to Ukraine. […]

Lithuanian prosecutors launch terrorism probe into calls to join separatists in Ukraine

August 19, 2014 ELTA EN 0

The chief prosecutor of Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office cancelled the decision of a prosecutor from the Department for Criminal Prosecution not to initiate an investigation into incitement of terrorism. Conservative MP Arvydas Anušauskas had turned to prosecutors saying that calls on social media to go and support separatist fighters in east Ukraine might be construed as incitement of terrorism. […]

Turchynov: Europe should aid Ukraine with modern weaponry

August 18, 2014 BNS 0

Withstanding Russia‘s aggression, Ukraine is not only defending itself but is also defending the whole of Europe, therefore, the West should provide necessary military assistance, Oleksandr Turchynov, chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, said in Lithuania on Monday. […]

Turchynov: Ukraine will be ready to join EU in five years

August 18, 2014 BNS 0

Ukraine should be ready for full EU membership within five years, Oleksandr Turchynov, chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, said in Lithuania on Monday. […]

Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė

NB8 parliament speakers to discuss situation in Ukraine

August 18, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s seaside resort Palanga will host the annual Conference of the Parliament Speakers of the NB8 (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) on 18–20 August. […]

Opinion: Putin grasped the political soul of the West

August 17, 2014 Vladimiras Laucius 0

Only now, after Russian missiles shot down the MH17 flight, does the West seem to experience something like a (small) shock. After all, until recently it urged Ukrainian President Poroshenko to sit down at the negotiating table with the terrorist ringleaders. […]