Ministry of National Defence

Lithuania said on Saturday it supplied military aid to Ukraine's troops who battle pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country.

Inspections of public procurement deals in the Lithuanian defence system over the past decade have revealed systematic violations, presidential adviser Živilė Šatūnienė says.

Lithuania's Defence Minister Juozas Olekas has instructed the ministry's staff to check all acquisition contracts signed by the ministry this year and the ongoing tenders referred to in the Public Procurement Service's report.

Lithuania's Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis has refused to attend a meeting of the political group of the ruling Social Democratic Party.

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.

The international battalion of NATO Allies should be stationed in Rukla, central Lithuania, next spring, the Ministry of National Defence has said.

Fighter jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states were scrambled once last week to identify and accompany a Russian warplane flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence.

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.

Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence and the army are signing a deal with a German company on the purchase of Boxer armoured infantry vehicles.

Almost a half of conscripts in Lithuania are willing to stay in the military after completing their mandatory service, the Ministry of National Defence says. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

French and German aviators will take over the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states in September. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

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.

More than 100 injured soldiers from Ukraine have gone through rehabilitation in Lithuania since the start of separatist clashes two years ago.

Russia would defend the rights of its nationals and Russian speakers everywhere, including abroad. Such are the menacing notions emanating from the Kremlin for some time now. Meanwhile what would the ethnic Russians of Lithuania do if Russian tanks and “green men” rolled into Lithuania?

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that an aircraft from Belarus has violated Lithuanian airspace in the district of Lazdijai, in the southern part of the country.

Sergey Moiseyenko, a 66-year-old espionage suspect on trial in Lithuania, concealed his Russian citizenship from Lithuanian institutions. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Training Squadron is arriving in the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda on Monday on the first visit of Japanese warships in Lithuania. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

When Lithuania reintroduced military conscription last year, politicians were throwing around promises of various benefits to sweeten the deal for the country's youngsters who were suddenly facing nine months of military service. Some of them have found that these promises should have been taken wit...

Lithuania is planning to contribute the first group of six military instructors to the US-led international operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq in early 2017, the Ministry of National Defence says. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.