Lithuania's Defense Minister Juozas Olekas on Friday met with Ukrainian soldiers undergoing treatment in the southern resort of Druskininkai, the ministry said.
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NATO decision to station an international military staff in Lithuania will contribute to security of both the country and the rest of the region, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says.
Didžiosios Britanijos aukcionų namai „Coys“ paskelbė, už kiek buvo parduota Seimo nario Stasio Brundzos automobilių kolekcija.
Chiefs of defence of NATO member-states are opening a two-day meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss additional security measures for the Alliance's Eastern members, including the Baltic states.
On 20 January, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Canadian Defence Minister Robert Nicholson at Canada's National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Both ministers addressed a number of common security and defence issues, including joint efforts to support Ukraine.
A new rotation of US soldiers, deployed in Lithuania with heavy combat equipment, the Stryker armoured personnel carriers, will begin their shift as of next week.
A Russian Federation armed forces plane An-72 violated the Estonian air space at 17:25 on 25 December near the Vaindloo island area in the Gulf of Finland, Postimees Online reports.
Russian naval ships will go on more missions in 2015 than before, Chief of Russian General Staff General Valery Gerasimov said on Monday.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday adopted amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, introducing fines for failure to obey a soldier's orders.
The world's most militarized country is Israel, according to the Global Militarization Index compiled by experts at the Bonn International Center for Conversion.
On 5 December, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas and his delegation is visiting Lithuanian military personnel serving in the multinational mission in Afghanistan, the Ministry of National Defence informs.
Russian human rights activist Elena Vasilieva, founder of the Gruz-200 group (codeword for coffin in the Soviet and contemporary Russian military terminology) explained that Russian soldiers are protesting against participation in the war in eastern Ukraine, zn.ua reports.
On Thursday, 13 November, President Dalia Grybauskaitė will attend military exercise Iron Sword 2014 at the military training area in Pabradė.
Military action in Ukraine is subsiding. Perhaps we can afford a sigh of relief. However, it would be definitely wrong to calm down without attempting at long-term conclusions for ourselves. These should be the conclusions on whether we are prepared to defend ourselves against such hybrid wars as th...
120s: Spy caught in Lithuania, Situation getting out of hand, Two military convoys in Ukraine, Russian economy to stagnate, 19-storey hotel demolished in Atlanta, USA.
On 4 November active phase of the multinational military exercise Iron Sword 2014 began at the Gaižiūnų Training Range and the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Range. The Training Audience from 9 NATO member states began training offensive and defensive operations in two major training areas of...
The Lithuanian Military Academy is preparing premises for the projected National Centre of Cyber Security, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says.
Soldiers from nine NATO nations and military equipment are being brought to Lithuania, where two military training grounds will host this year's biggest military exercise event, Iron Sword 2014. The exercise, starting this weekend and organized by the Lithuanian army, will involve some 2,500 soldier...
The website of the Russian Embassy in Sweden says: "Russia is closer than it seems..."
German military equipment will be brought to a training event in Lithuania on Friday, the Baltic country's Ministry of National Defence said.
