Ministry of National Defence

Next year, the Ministry of National Defence will sign an additional agreement with Germany on social conditions for troops of a German brigade to be stationed in Lithuania.

The Ministry of National Defence plans to earmark more than EUR 3.1 billion in the next decade for the acquisition of military supplies. Ammunition will account for 90% of military stocks, while the rest will include engineering equipment and explosives.

The Ministry of National Defence has announced that US-made sniper rifles Barrett and Belgian machineguns FN Minimi have been transferred to the Lithuanian Armed Forces to boost their capability.

The Ministry of National Defence announces that the country’s defence budget has nearly doubled in the recent three years, rising to over 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) this year.

On 24-30 July, fighter aircraft conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic States were scrambled three times to identify and escort aircraft of the Russian Federation flying in violation of flight rules in international airspace over the Baltic Sea and once to patrol the airspace border ...

MP Agnė Širinskienė, chair of the parliamentary group of non-attached MPs, intends to appeal to prosecutors after Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas publicly revealed on Facebook that Lithuania would purchase German-made main battle tanks. Opposition lawmakers claim that the defence min...

Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė has revealed that officers and services will remain at the highest level of readiness at Lithuania’s border with Belarus as Wagner private military company is moving from Russia to Belarus. Yet she notes that so far Wagner does not pose a direct threat to Lith...

The NASAMS air defence launcher systems Lithuania is buying for Ukraine are worth around EUR 9.8 million, the Ministry of National Defence said on Wednesday.

The Government’s investment in road, rail, port and airport infrastructure is set to rise to EUR 1 billion in the second half of 2023, the minister of transport and communications says.

On Tuesday, Vilnius will be hosting its first cybersecurity forum, Cyber Champions Summit, the Ministry of National Defence reports.

As enhancement of defence cooperation between Lithuania and Germany continues, Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany concerning Temporary Stays of Members of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Lithuania and the Armed Forc...

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

The second rotation of German troops is coming to Lithuania to head the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battlegroup.

Sergeant of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas Staff Battalion unexpectedly passed away during a training in Italy on Friday.

With less than a month remaining to the Seimas elections and the Social Democrat Party remaining ahead in polls, DELFI speaks to several experts on how the current circumstances could be evaluated.

Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas must step down because of the scandal over the army's overpriced purchases that discredits not only the national defence system, but also the state and the Social Democratic Party, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday.