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The vision of a whole Europe is only possible with the involvement of the Ukrainian and Russian people, U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt D. Volker told an international conference in Vilnius on Wednesday.

Transatlantic ties are irreplaceable, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says amid the recent tension between the European Union and the United States.

A NATO soldier from Hungary on Tuesday caused a car accident in the outskirts of Vilnius.

Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford has thanked Lithuania for its support in fighting terrorism and reiterated further commitment to the security of the Baltic Sea region.

US President Donald Trump has signed a law on the country's defense budget for the next year, adopted by the Congress. Among other things, it includes a call to change NATO's Baltic air policing mission's mandate into that of an air defense mission.

Fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of NATO's Baltic air policing were scrambled twice last week to identify and escort Russia's military planes flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea.

Colonel Romualdas Petkevičius will replace Colonel Gintautas Bagdonas as head of the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence this week.

American army engineers are finishing installing a training area near Lithuania's southeastern city of Kazlų Rūda, the national television LRT's program Panorama reports.

NATO fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of the NATO air policing mission were scrambled five times last week to identify and escort military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea.

Lithuania's Ministry of National Defense announced on Monday it had a contract on the expansion of the army's training area in Pabradė.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos will pay a visit to Lithuania in late July.

Lithuania has trust in the United States' commitment to NATO's collective defense, despite President Donald Trump's expressed doubts, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says.