Ministry of National Defence

Lithuania is to spend 1.79% of its GDP on defence next year, according to the draft budget for 2017. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian warship M53 Skalvis began a shift in the NATO Response Force last week. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania will for the first time participate in a meeting of ministers from countries that are part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Colonel Remigijus Baltrėnas has become Lithuania's new military intelligence chief, replacing Colonel Alvydas Šiuparis who is leaving for the United States to take up his new post as defence attaché. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania will appoint defence advisers at its embassies in the United States and Ukraine, in line with a decision adopted by the government on Wednesday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The commander of the United States Forces Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, will attend a conference on NATO’s strength, defence and deterrence, in Vilnius on Monday ahead of the NATO Summit in Warsaw.

A NATO military exercise kept farmers in Ukmergė District awake all night and left them dumbfounded when they found soldiers shooting rounds in their gardens.

Lithuania's Armed Forces decided to reclaim ownership of an airfield in Kazlų Rūda which was intended to be converted into a Formula 2 race track.

A man performing the initial mandatory military service passed away in a Kaunas hospital on Monday morning.

Lithuania is set to be raised by €150 million in 2017 according to a draft of 2017-2019 state budgets developed by the Finance Ministry.

Salvatore Farina, a high-ranking NATO general on a visit to Vilnius on Thursday, will discuss the Alliance's defence plans for the Baltics with Lithuania's military and Ministry of National Defence officials.

Maxima LT, a leading retailer in Lithuania, plans to turn to the State Security Department (VSD) over next week's planned boycott of supermarket chains that is being organized via social media.

A new shift of rotating US forces have begun service in Lithuania this week, the Ministry of National Defence reports.

NATO air policing fighters stationed in the Baltic States performed five scrambles last week to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence has reported.

The more than 500 companies that belong to the Lithuanian Defence and Security Association show that Lithuania can manufacture more than agricultural products.

NATO fighter jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic countries were scrambled three times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft, including bombers, flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Monday.

After years of under-investment, a once-comatose Lithuanian army must now learn to walk again, and do so quickly, say high-ranking officials.

Germany has plans to join the NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence (ENSEC COE), based in Vilnius, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday.

On Saturday, the Lithuanian military announced that it would be preparing alternative dietary menus without meat, fish and dairy products. This decision was made after a survey of more than 1,300 conscripts, 29 of whom expressed an interest in alternative diets.