Military

On 23-24 September NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) General Adrian Bradshaw paid a visit to the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania.

On 24-25 September, Lithuanian and American soldiers will for the first time together train shooting at airborne targets over the Baltic Sea at a combined artillery live-fire exercise.

A new shift of US troops with heavy combat machinery – Stryker armoured transporters and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles – is starting service in Lithuania on 1 October.

Chief of Defence of Lithuania, Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas, expressed his delight with interesting and intense discussions on further NATO's actions in response to the changed international security situation when summarizing the results of NATO Military Committee Conference 2014 in Vilnius, ...

The Chief of the General Staff of Armed Forces of the Czech Republic, General Petr Pavel, was elected new chairman of the NATO Military Committee in Vilnius on Saturday.

Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine have agreed to set up a joint military brigade. After years of negotiation, the agreement will be signed in Warsaw on Friday.

In order to consolidate security in Eastern Europe, Germany will send about 800 soldiers to military exercises in the Baltic states next year, the Latvian National Armed Forces' Commander Raimonds Graube informed LETA.

In the event of aggression, Lithuania would not repeat the mistake it made in 1940 and would resist occupation, Lieutenant Colonel Liudas Gumbinas, commander of the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union, said on Thursday.

International Exercise Maple Arch 2014 running on September 8-19 in Poland entered active phase. The operational plan generated after a week-long planning process is undergoing a suitability test on Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation System (JCATS).

As Russia is engaging in an undeclared war in eastern Ukraine, people in the Baltic states follow developments in Donbass with anxiety, while their leaders work around the clock to ensure that similar scenarios could not be repeated in their backyards. Still, "what would we do if Russia attacked Lit...

A civilian staff member died while on duty at the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania.

Nearly half of residents of Lithuania believe the country would be able to resist a Russian attack for a few days without NATO's help, shows a poll commissioned by DELFI.

There’s no difference in the way Russia treats its civilians or its soldiers and it’s this aspect of Russia that makes it a true successor of Soviet tradition, Ramūnas Bogdanas argues.

A civilian was injured during a military exercise in Gaižiūnai training grounds in Lithuania's central Jonava district in late hours of Thursday.

Soldiers of the Lithuanian Land Force will take part in an international peace support operations exercise Rapid Trident 2014 at the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre, Yavoriv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, the Ministry of National Defence informs.

International exercise dedicated for artillery and mortar units Flaming Thunder 2014, organised by the Land Force, is commencing on Monday at the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Range. Over the course of two weeks, more than three hundred Lithuanian and US soldiers will be improving their skil...

Over the last two months, Russia has reportedly sent up to 15 thousand soldiers to Ukraine. At least several hundred of them were killed in action, according an NGO exposing wrongs committed by Russia's armed forces.

Ukraine will never accept the loss of Crimea. Valery Zhovtenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Lithuania, said in the exclusive interview to ELTA news agency that only negotiation measures would be used to solve the issue of Crimea. In case it fails, the issue should be t...

A delegation led by Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Juozas Olekas arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday to visit Lithuanian troops that are part of the NATO ISAF operation, the Ministry of National Defence said.

The third rotation of US paratroopers have arrived in Lithuania and will train with Lithuanian troops, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday.