Baltic Sea

The Estonian Internal Security Service (KAPO) has informed NATO about suspicions that the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) spotted in the country's territory over the last couple of years might have been sent and controlled by Russian special forces.

Lifeguards in Palanga, Lithuania's Baltic Sea resort, will be using drones to police holidaymakers on the resort's busy beaches this summer.

US presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if Russia does not respond to diplomatic calls to stop flyby manoeuvres over the Baltic Sea, the Americans would have to shoot Russian planes down.

NATO air policing fighters stationed in the Baltic States performed five scrambles last week to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence has reported.

This week, representatives from seven Baltic countries gathered in Vilnius to prepare a unified tourism project that would unite all of the UNESCO World Heritage sites found throughout these countries. This beautiful skyscape over the Baltic Sea near the Lithuanian town of Nida is just one of the si...

The dream of Klaipėda University (KU) scientists of finding the legendary interwar ship President Smetona (Prezidentas Smetona) may finally be coming closer to reality with an expedition in the Baltic Sea.

The representatives of seven Baltic countries have gathered in Vilnius to create a new unified tourism project to link all the UNESCO World Heritage sites across the Baltic.

Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, tension with the West has been high, affecting eastern Ukraine, Syria and hot spots across the former Soviet sphere. Less overtly, Moscow has been working to protect areas vital to Russian interests by raising the stakes of U.S. operations there.

The NATO-Russia Council meeting last week did not seem to bring any tangible results, but it was preceded by the usual clash of opposing positions within NATO, one side advocating for engaging in dialogue with Russia and the other sceptical about Russia's interest in genuine engagement.

NATO fighter jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic countries were scrambled three times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft, including bombers, flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Monday.

Praėjusį savaitgalį Vilniaus Pavilnių regioniniame parke prasidėjo Baltijos šalių diskgolfo varžybų „Prodiscus Baltic Sea Tour 2016“ sezonas. Vilnietis Mindaugas Pošius tapo absoliučiu nugalėtoju, o jo bendraklubis Darius Gricius nugalėjo Meistrų divizione.

At the United Nations headquarters in New York, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will sign the Paris climate change agreement today.

The US European Command said last weekend that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet "performed erratic and aggressive maneuvers", flying within 50 feet of an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea.

The electricity interconnection between Lithuania and Sweden Nordbalt is back online after a malfunction shut it down last week.

US European Command said on Sunday that a Russian jet had made aggressive manoeuvres near a US reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea, a second incident between Russian and American forces in the region in the past week, Reuters reports.

Russian OMRP Spetsnaz units may have landed on the coast of Juodkrantė two years ago. This suggestion by the chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee Artūras Paulauskas, has caused considerable turmoil and concern.

This striking photo of a Russian SU-24 attack jet passing within metres of the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea as it made its way to Lithuania made headlines in the Baltic region and around the world.

The incidents in the Baltic Sea this week where Russian jets buzzed an American warship were widely reported in the Western media and Lithuania should use the occasion to push for more military support from its NATO allies, according to a Lithuanian analyst.

Several Russian Su-24 attack aircraft conducted a “simulated attack profile” against the USS Donald Cook warship in the Baltic Sea, with one of the jets on Tuesday flying within nine metres of the destroyer.