Ministry of National Defence

Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian defence ministers will Friday in Lviv sign an agreement on establishment of a joint military brigade.

It is crucial for the Baltic states to develop a joint mid-range air-defence system, counter hybrid threats and strengthen regional cooperation, Lithuania's Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said on Wednesday after meeting with his new Latvian counterpart, Raimonds Bergmanis, in Vilnius.

Around 30 Lithuanian troops are taking part in the international military exercise Rapid Trident 2015, started in Western Ukraine on Monday.

NATO fighter-jets serving in the air policing mission were scrambled once from Lithuania last week to identify a Russian warplane flying above the Baltic Sea.

On 16 June, last members of the 92nd Jaeger Battalion of the Bundeswehr deployed in Lithuania for combined training left for home. As part of the agreed NATO measures of deterrence over 200 German soldiers were conducting combined training and exercises for three months with soldiers from Lithuania ...

A Lithuanian delegation has left for Grunwald, Poland, to attend the 605th anniversary of the Battle of Žalgiris (also known as the Battle of Grunwald), Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Friday.

Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence will propose raising pay for professional troops.

NATO Baltic air policing fighter jets were scrambled once last week to intercept and accompany a Russia plane flying over the Baltic Sea, according to Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence.

If it transpires that German rifles Heckler & Koch G36 are unreliable, other alternatives will be sought, says Lithuania's National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas.

Lithuania plans to buy Boxer armoured fighting vehicles from Germany, the spokesman for the Lithuanian chief of defence confirmed to BNS on Thursday, adding that the proposal would be submitted to the State Defence Council.

Allied high readiness elements might come to Lithuania next year for training and certification of a NATO headquarters being established in Lithuania, its Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Mindaugas Petkevičius says.

The progress made in the establishment of a NATO headquarters, the NATO Force Integration Unit (NFIU) in Vilnius, its leadership, tasks and organization will be presented to national defence leadership, foreign defence attachés in Lithuania, and media at the headquarters of the Joint Staff of the Li...

Lithuanian has sent four army instructors to Ukraine where they will train Ukrainian troops in cooperation with American soldiers.

Chief of Staff of the US Army General Raymond Odierno is visiting Lithuania.

Two Lithuanian soldiers from the National Support Element (NSE) have been seen off to the Operation ATALANTA in Africa, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday.

On 1 July, a US Air Force's C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft landed at Vilnius International Airport bringing 80 members of the Germany-based 4th Infantry Division's Mission Command Element (MCE) under the command of Brigadier General Michael Tarsa for combined training in Lithuania, the Mini...

A formal deployment ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces in Vilnius on Friday for yet another shift of Lithuanian soldiers joining the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

The first heavy US weaponry should reach the Baltic states in early 2016, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence has said.

Last week NATO fighter jets protecting the Baltic airspace were scrambled ten times to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace on the way to or from mainland Russia and to the Russian region of Kaliningrad.

Lithuania and the United States intend to sign an intergovernmental agreement on closer military cooperation.