Russian OMRP Spetsnaz units may have landed on the coast of Juodkrantė two years ago. This suggestion by the chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee Artūras Paulauskas, has caused considerable turmoil and concern.
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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has urged politicians to refrain from speculating on security issues, following a number of suspected border violations by Russia.
On his visit to the United States this week, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas was assured by US politicians that Congress will approve the $3.4-billion-USD European Reassurance Initiative for 2017, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday.
Russian helicopters crossed into the Lithuanian territory from Kaliningrad on Tuesday. They were spotted visually, but not by a radar, the Ministry of National Defence has confirmed.
NATO fighter jets serving in the Baltic air policing mission performed three scrambles last week to identify and escort Russian military planes over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence Ministry has said.
Lithuanian politician-businessman Antanas Guoga has pledged to give a job to Abdul Basir Yoususi, an Afghani refugee who caught the nation's attention last week with a youtube video where he asked, in Lithuanian, for a refuge in the country.
A proposal was submitted to the Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday to increase the country's contribution to NATO's Response Force by a factor of more than two.
Lithuania is celebrating the 12th anniversary since joining NATO this week.
Russia and Belarus are likely to target infiltrating Lithuania's Armed Forces via new recruits and conscripts, according to the Lithuanian Security Institutions’ annual report on Wednesday.
Lithuania plans to double the number of soldiers it sends to the NATO Response Force as of next year.
It has been 12 years to the day since Lithuania joined NATO. Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas spoke today about how the Lithuanian government and the Alliance itself are coming to understand the threat that the Baltic states face.
The first batch of upgraded communications equipment procured by Lithuania as part of the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI) and other foreign assistance funds was delivered to Karmelava Airport in central Lithuania on Wednesday.
The Bamako-based headquarters of the European Union Training Mission in Mali, where a Lithuanian officer is also serving, came under attack on Tuesday, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Wednesday.
Russia is the biggest threat to Lithuanian security and military aggression is no longer just a hypothetical possibility, according to the updated Military Strategy drafted by Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence.
Almost half the positions of this year's military draft have already been filled by volunteers, according to Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence. If volunteers continue signing up at the present rate, there might not be any need to draft young men who have not come forward for the military serv...
Russian statements about maneuvers in Syria should be viewed with caution, says Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, adding that countries should wait for actions to prove them.
Diverging views on poetry has become an issue of a heated debate on history and censorship after Lithuania's minister of defence denied a state award to an author whose analysis of the Soviet past did not match the minister's own opinion. At the centre of the controversy is the poet Justinas Marcink...
Lithuania will send six additional military police officers to NATO's mission in Afghanistan and a water purification unit and staff officers to the United Nations operation in Mali, the Ministry of National Defence told BNS on Tuesday.
“Dinner in the canteen: 'Oh look, there's cheese!' - a soldier exclaimed. 'No, its for the Americans,' the chef answered strictly” - this was an exchange shared by Lithuanian journalist Ignas Krupavičius, who is currently serving as a conscript in the Lithuanian army.
The beginning of the year 2016 remains calm for NATO air-policing jets guarding the Baltic skies – they again were not scrambled to identify and intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation or other countries last week, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said.
