Military

The Seimas of Lithuania has started deliberating upon amendments to the Law on Military Conscription and the Law on National Defence System Organisation and Military Service.

Media around the world are increasingly focusing on Kaliningrad as the possible next site of Russian-Western confrontation, as Moscow keeps dispatching military equipment to its enclave squeezed between Lithuania and Poland.

The first part of US heavy military equipment to be used in combined training with Lithuanian troops on Sunday was delivered to the Gaižiūnai railway station in the district of Jonava, in the central part of the country.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė paid a visit to the Training Regiment located in Rukla and said that the infrastructure is of the highest NATO standards.

Several units of the Baltic fleet and in the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces have been put on high alert for a large-scale strategic military exercise in Russia, news agency Interfax reports.

The Russian military has put into service new missiles meant for the S-300V4 anti-ballistic system; they have a range of 400 kilometres, a representative of the Russian Defence Ministry said, adding that the new missiles will be first deployed in Russia's western regions.

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The Lithuanian government on Wednesday backed a bill drafted by the Ministry of National Defence on the restoration of conscription. It will now go to parliament for further consideration.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Vytautas Keršanskas, Junior Policy Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. German media announced that Germany is not going to sell armed vehicles Boxer to Lithuania. Immediately after, German general stepped-in and said that reports were not correc...

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Jonas Ohman - a founder of the civic initiative Blue and Yellow, a Lithuania-based group that helps to gather funds, acquire some needed military gear and transport it to Ukrainian military units on the ground. He has just returned from Ukraine, where he ...

The Italian Typhoon fighter jets, stationed in the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai as part of NATO's Baltic air policing mission, were on Wednesday scrambled to accompany two Russian military transport aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Vytautas Keršanskas Junior Policy Analyst, Policy Analysis and Research Division, at the Eastern European Studies Centre. We asked about a message that Lithuania is sending to the outside world by reintroducing military conscription?

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Lithuania's Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas was on Monday assured by his German colleague, General Volker Wieker, that media reports about Berlin's alleged refusal to sell armoured trucks was incorrect.

During the European Union Defence Ministers' meeting in Riga, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas presented his German colleagues with Lithuania's proposal regarding purchase of self-propelled artillery systems.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has not revealed the details of armament supply by Lithuania to Ukraine. However, he has emphasised that Lithuania is providing support within its means.

Poland does not discount the possibility of supplying weapons to Ukraine, but at this stage supports diplomatic efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict, Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said in Vilnius on Wednesday.

Military cooperation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is crucial, as Russia views the three Baltic states as yet another field for military operations, says Saulius Gasiūnas, director of the Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Department at the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence.

This week, Lithuania's government intends to discuss draft laws on the Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian agreement to set up a joint military brigade.

Lithuania is keeping a close eye on the ongoing major military exercises in the Russian region of Kaliningrad but has no reason for concern, Lithuanian minister of national defence says.