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.
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A Russian Federation armed forces plane An-72 violated the Estonian air space at 17:25 on 25 December near the Vaindloo island area in the Gulf of Finland, Postimees Online reports.
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.
On 6 December a group of warships of the Russian Federation (22 vessels) was spotted in the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. The group was accompanied by military aircraft flying over the neutral waters, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence reports.
NATO air-policing jets took off once last week due to Russian aircrafts, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said.
Purchased for arming the Lithuanian Armed Forces and enhancing defence of its subdivisions and objects against air attacks, the first portion of man-portable air defence system (MANPADS) GROM is due to arrive in Lithuania by the end of this year. Four Lithuanian soldiers are currently deployed in Po...
After the mysterious hunt for a submarine off the coasts of Sweden, a Portuguese Air Force reconnaissance airplane Lockheed P-3C CUP was sent to Lithuania in late October to observe the Baltic Sea.
Since the beginning of September, NATO fighter jets stationed in the Baltics have taken to the skies 30 times to identify Russian aircraft flying near Baltic borders, the Latvian Defence Ministry's portal Sargs.lv informs.
The Russian warplane that caused NATO fighter-jets to take off from the Lithuanian Air Force base on Wednesday was flying next to the Baltic states but did not violate the Lithuanian air-space, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday evening in a message that updated a report from the Dutc...
On 20-24 October, Commander of the Lithuanian Air Force, Colonel Audronis Navickas is conducting visits to Brussels (Belgium) and Florence (Italy), the Ministry of National Defence informs.
Chief of Defence of Lithuania, Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas, expressed his delight with interesting and intense discussions on further NATO's actions in response to the changed international security situation when summarizing the results of NATO Military Committee Conference 2014 in Vilnius, ...
A civilian staff member died while on duty at the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania.
A Lithuanian Air Force's Spartan airplane will land at Vilnius international airport in early hours of Sunday, bringing 11 injured participants of the anti-terrorist operation from Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk region.
F-18 Hornet fighter-jet of Canada's Royal Air Force made an emergency landing at the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, on Friday.
Lithuania's Fire-and-Rescue Department is preparing a second shipment of humanitarian aid for Ukraine and will bring along the items collected by public organizations.
The Lithuanian Air Force transport airplane C-27J Spartan left the Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Tuesday morning with the material support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Lithuania's support to Ukraine can only increase, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday.
The Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, on Monday hosted the official rotation ceremony of contingents in charge of NATO's Baltic air policing mission.
A C-27J Spartan of the Lithuanian Air Force is scheduled to leave Lithuania on Tuesday to transport the country's assistance the Ukrainian army.
Polish Mig-29 fighter jets scrambled from the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in northern part of the country on Friday to escort Russian airplanes flying close to the Estonian coast of the Baltic Sea, Lithuanian officials confirmed.
