Lithuania's defence minister has been forced to reassure that the country's military does not discriminate against gay men after an army psychiatrist claimed that homosexuality was an exclusion criteria in selecting servicemen.
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Lithuania's police on Monday launched a pre-trial investigation into the recent hacking of the website of Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. The website itself is now shut down for upgrading.
Lithuanian National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas does not admit to have made any mistakes during the search and rescue operation for the An-2 plane that crashed in the Baltic Sea in the middle of May, and has not plans to resign.
NATO fighter jets, stationed in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai, were on Monday scrambled to identify a Russian military reconnaissance plane that was flying with its transponder switched off.
The Wednesday's cyber attack on the website of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Joint Staff was plotted for at least two weeks, with requests sent from Iran, among other countries, says Rimantas Černiauskas, director of the National Cyber Security Centre.
A Vilnius court on Thursday finished hearing witness testimonies and published case materials in the trial of former army paramedic Andrey Oshurkov who is suspected of spying for Belarus.
Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says that 2,000 volunteers have already enlisted in the Lithuanian Armed Forces for 9-month military service.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday adopted amendments on the extension of the service time for professional troops.
False information was on Wednesday published on the website of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. An investigation has been launched into suspected hacking, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday.
Lithuanian Special Operations Squadron Aitvaras is finishing its mission in Afghanistan after 13 years. However, a dozen of Lithuanian troops are set to stay in the country for at least the end of this year.
Photography project draws attention to gender stereotypes behind Lithuania's conscription debate (14)
The Lithuanian government has decided to reintroduce military conscription this year, after which the Ministry of National Defence compiled a list of almost 37,000 eligible young men who might be drafted for the military service this year. This has sparked much controversy and a heated debate in the...
Civilian rescue operations should be coordinated by a separate crisis management centre and not by the army, says Kęstutis Budrys, the president's adviser on national security issues.
Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas announced that 1,561 volunteers have signed up for service in the Lithuanian army by Monday morning, 25 May, and that the health commission examined the 500 of them.
Five foreign troops got heavy metal fume poisoning during a training event held by the Lithuanian army on Monday, the country's Ministry of National Defence said. They are being treated at Kaunas Clinics.
Search for an An-2 civil airplane that went missing above the Baltic Sea on Saturday afternoon with two Lithuanian pilots is being resumed on Monday.
The three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, will ask NATO leadership to deploy a permanent brigade in an effort to deter Russia, the Lithuanian army's spokesman said on Thursday.
More than half of respondents in Lithuania support the reintroduction of the conscription system, with the majority willing to send their children and grandchildren to mandatory military service, shows a poll commissioned by DELFI.
Lists of conscripts have been complied at the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence on Monday.
NATO fighter-jets on an air policing mission were scrambled from Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, on Monday to accompany two Russian military transport airplanes.
Lithuanian experts reached agreement on the purchase of 16 Pzh2000 howitzer during their visit to Germany earlier this week, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Friday.