Lithuanian Armed Forces

Lithuania on Tuesday formally welcomed troops of NATO's enhanced forward presence battalion that is being deployed to the country in response to Russia's threat.

Leadership of the international NATO battalion to be established in Lithuania arrived in Vilnius from Germany on Tuesday.

Top commanders of the NATO international Allied battalion to be deployed in Lithuania are coming to Vilnius on Monday.

As the town of Rukla, central Lithuania, awaits deployment of more than 1,000 NATO troops, the military town has already improved the infrastructure and plans to do more work for 5.8 million euros before the arrival of the entire battalion in mid-2017, Verslo Žinios business daily said.

The first troops of the international Allied battalion should arrive in Lithuania next week, army officials said in Rukla on Wednesday.

NATO's military exercises of this size and scale are an important part of the Alliance's deterrence plan and send a clear message to aggressors that NATO is united strong and ready to defend each of its member nations, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said.

The political will to defend one's country is what matters most and comparing capabilities is a pointless thing to do, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Representatives of Germany's Daimler AG will hand over the first UNIMOG U5000 military trucks to the Lithuanian Armed Forces in a ceremony in the Kazlų Rūda training area on Thursday.

Mid-range Norwegian advanced surface to air missile systems (NASAMS) are to be delivered to Lithuania by 2020, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Friday.

The deployment of Patriot long-range air defence systems in Lithuania as part of NATO's multinational battalion that is to arrive in the country next year is being considered, the chief of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces said on October 20.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has decided not to approve Defense Minister Juozas Olekas of the Social Democrats as caretaker health minister due to his discredited reputation in the story of "golden spoons."

Nota Bene, a local company, agrees to return the money that the Lithuanian Armed Forces paid for costly kitchen utensils, dubbed by the media as "golden spoons", and to take the items back from warehouses.

Germany's Karcher-Futuretech maintains it did not supply any kitchen utensils to Lithuanian company Nota Bene, which later sold the items to Lithuania's Armed Forces, public relations chief of the German enterprise said.

The Lithuanian parliament's Labour Party group is summoning Chief of Defence Jonas Vytautas Žukas on Wednesday over the costly public procurement for the Armed Forces.

Lithuania on Monday signed a contract to purchase German Boxer infantry fighting vehicles for nearly €386 million, which is the most expensive acquisition in the history of Lithuania's Armed Forces.

Several hundreds of used military vehicles purchased from the Netherlands will add mobility and power to the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said on Thursday.

The contract on the purchase of German infantry fighting vehicles Boxer for Lithuanian Armed Forces will be signed on August 22, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence has said.

Another officer of Lithuania's Armed Forces left for the European Union-led Sophia operation to curb illegal migration in the Mediterranean Sea region. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The Lithuanian Armed Forces will fire the first shots from the self-propelled PzH 2000 howitzers acquired from Germany at home in a military exercise on Tuesday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania plans to buy Javelin medium-range anti-tank weapon systems and missiles from the United States, a purchase worth approximately €7 million. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.