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President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda calls on Ukraine and Poland to resolve disagreements as soon as possible. The Polish government has declared that it would stop arms deliveries to Ukraine amid a row over Ukrainian grain exports.

A green energy company Ignitis Renewables is expanding its management team. Anu Eslas, an executive with international experience, will oversee international business development at the company. The offshore development specialist started working at Ignitis Renewables on 19 September, the company sa...

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė regrets that some politicians are trying to discredit much debated life skills lessons that are being introduced in schools. She says politicians have turned the new programme into a straw man fallacy before 2024 elections. She also believes that President Gitanas Nau...

On Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with President Andrzej Duda of Poland at the Security and Economic Forum in Krynica.

President Gitanas Nausėda is paying a visit to Romania, where he is attending the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) Summit. Speaking to the media in Bucharest, the Lithuanian president said it is possible to export millions of tonnes of Ukrainian through ports of the Baltic States and Poland.

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is critical of the idea of Poland and the Baltic States of possible closure of borders with Belarus. She says open borders are vital in order for Belarusians to flee from the Alexander Lukashenko regime.

Almost one million packs of illegal cigarettes were seized at the border with Belarus a few days ago, the Lithuanian Customs said on Friday. The cigarettes were disguised as a load of polyester fibre in transit to Poland.

MP Saulius Skvernelis, leader of the party Democrats For Lithuania, says Ukrainian grain transit through Lithuania is a challenging endeavour due to differences in railway gauge in Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, which might make export costly.

Transit of Ukrainian grain through Lithuania has stopped, says Minister of Agriculture Kęstutis Navickas. Lithuanian and Ukrainian ministers urge the European Commission to contribute to raising Ukrainian grain export volumes through ports of the Baltic States. It is proposed that the European Commi...

On Tuesday, Commander of the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) General Rustamas Liubajevas met with President Gitanas Nausėda. Afterwards, speaking about the planned closure of two border crossing points at the border with Belarus, Liubajevas told reporters that this would contribute to enhancing th...

An important stage of territorial planning of the European gauge railway Rail Baltica is coming to an end – specific territories, parcels of land and their parts have been identified, which the Rail Baltica railway line will cross on the section from Jiesia (Kaunas) to the Polish border, the Ministr...

The flights of Belarusian helicopters reportedly breaching Polish airspace may have been an attempt by the Lukashenko regime to test its western borders, the chair of the parliament’s security committee says.

National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas refuses to say whether Lithuania would follow Poland’s example and consider mining its border due to the threat posed by Wagner mercenaries relocated to Belarus.

Although other countries share information with Lithuania, yet the role of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus is not entirely clear, president’s chief adviser on national security Kęstutis Budrys said in an interview to the radio station Žinių radijas on Tuesday.

Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas says that Lithuania’s geopolitical situation has not changed after the arrival of Russia’s private military company Wagner to Belarus.

The Armed Forces of Lithuania are closely monitoring the security situation in the region and are ready to respond to potential threats to national security after Russia’s private military company Wagner arrived in Belarus and started holding exercises with Belarusian forces at the border with Polan...

In an interview to the news radio Žinių radijas on Wednesday, speaker of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen welcomed the idea to attract Polish banks to Lithuania.

On Sunday, President Gitanas Nausėda and President Andrzej Duda of Poland participated in a ceremony to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the transatlantic flight of Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas at their crash site in Pszczelnik, Poland, reports the Office of the President.

President of Poland Andrzej Duda will pay a state visit to Lithuania on 5-7 July on the invitation of President Gitanas Nausėda.

Minister of Finance Gintarė Skaistė is visiting Poland and has invited Poland’s financial sector companies to invest in Lithuania and expand their activities here.