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The military attacks in Ukraine that claim civilian lives should be deemed terrorist attacks, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says, adding that the European Union (EU) should tighten its sanctions on Russia following the latest attacks in Donetsk and Mariupol.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania strongly condemns increased Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

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Lithuanian's Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė on Wednesday accused Russia of seeking to legitimize its territorial gains in Ukraine, achieved by separatists after an official truce.

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Following the proposal put forward by Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations (UN), the UN Security Council condemned the shelling of a passenger bus in Volnovakha, Donetsk Region of Ukraine.

In the 1950s, Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash invented a Machiavellian game entitled So Long Suckers. To win, a player had to game, and ultimately betray, his adversaries. Today, as they sit in frozen trenches in what was once aptly named the Wild Fields, it looks as if the soldie...

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Seven doctors who lost normal working conditions in the war-torn eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk want to come to Lithuania and work in the northern district of Akmenė, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.

The situation is Ukraine has gotten more ominous. Additional armed Russian troops have entered the country's territory a week ago, accompanied by heavy weaponry and tanks. This mobilization of Russia's armed forces is not the first such occurrence, but the significance lies in its timing on the eve ...

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will attend the European Union's (EU) Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday. The main topic on the agenda is the situation in Ukraine.

Election time is over in Ukraine. It cemented the realities on the ground. Unfortunately, it has also further entrenched conflicting sides in Ukraine.

The United States condemned in harsh terms the illegitimate elections held on Sunday by Russia-backed separatists in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk, National Security Council Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan described the ‘elections’ as sham.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuanian strongly condemns illegitimate “elections” in some parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions organized by illegal armed groups on 2 November.

Six years ago, when Russia attacked Georgia and tore off the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Western countries were, as always, "very concerned", sent out their observers, provided humanitarian support and Nocolas Sarozy, the then President of France, volunteered to mediate in sett...

The Lithuanian government has issued a statement saying it regrets Russia’s decision to block the adoption by the United Nations Security Council of a press statement on the illegal “elections” in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine to be held by armed separatists on 2 November.

Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky. He reasons that if the “little green men” and Russian troops turn up in Estonia, for example, Vladimir Putin would warn NATO not to intervene because that would be ...

We congratulate the people of Ukraine for expressing their will in free and democratic early elections to Verkhovna Rada and for choosing European future.

Sufficient legal basis has been developed for the premature parliamentary elections that will take place in Ukraine this Sunday, and there are no circumstances for invalidating the results, Ukrainian Constitutional Court president Yurii Baulin told BNS in Vilnius on Friday.