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Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis on Friday met with ambassadors of the European Union member states accredited to Lithuania and urged their countries to reach an agreement on the 15th package of sanctions on Russia.

I first met Linas Linkevičius, then Lithuania’s ambassador to NATO in the late 2000s, in Brussels. Knowing my Estonian background, he joked that Estonians were committed to fighting for the Baltic nations’ freedom until the last Lithuanian fell. Behind the former Foreign Minister’s humour lies a poi...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it has detained two Ukrainian military intelligence officers in Kaliningrad Oblast as they attempted to cross from Lithuania to Russia. The National Crisis Management Centre of Lithuania (NKVC) believes these claims to be a provocation.

There are many things within the defence system and the National Armed Forces (NBS), beyond communication, that need to be changed and will have to be changed, President Edgars Rinkevics told TV3 this morning, commenting on the findings after the downing of a Russian drone on Latvian territory.

The Seimas has passed a motion to denounce three international economic agreements with Russia and Belarus.

Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė says the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) intention to restart economic consultations with Russia sends a ’very bad signal’ to the international community.

Kęstutis Kvietkus, who has been found to be serving in Russia’s military, has been stripped of his Lithuanian citizenship, the Ministry of the Interior said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė confirmed on Thursday that a vessel transporting 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilisers from Russia would not be allowed to sail to Lithuania’s Klaipėda port.

These days mark the 85th anniversary since the start of World War II in Europe. For several years so far, many analysts and policymakers have been talking about the chances for another military conflict, in which Russia could become the main challenger of the Western world. The plans for European de...

On Thursday, ministers of justice of the Council of Europe convened in Vilnius and considered further steps towards establishing the Special Tribunal for Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine. Vilnius hosted the conference entitled Towards Accountability for International Crimes Committed in ...

These days mark two and a half years since the start of Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine – and almost the same time has passed since the introduction of restrictive measures against Russia that had soon turned it into the world’s most san­ctioned nation.

In August, the Customs Department announced that an unnamed Lithuanian company was fined EUR 13.6 million for violating sanctions and exporting 60 lorries to Russia, investigative journalist centre Siena reported.

National Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas says he is familiar with the case of Kęstutis Kvietkus amid reports that the man is fighting alongside Russians in Ukraine.

The Migration Department has dismissed its Klaipėda-based employee who concealed the fact that she had gained the Russian citizenship.

This year, 129 Russian-owned companies operating in Lithuania saw their turnover falling by nearly 40 percent as compared to the period before the war started in Ukraine in 2022, Verslo žinios business news website reports.

Six people have lost their Lithuanian citizenship after they were revealed to have acquired Russian citizenship and concealed that, the Migration Department said Wednesday.

The Ministry of National Defence has registered a proposal for the Government to withdraw from a convention banning the use of cluster munitions. The draft legislation is currently being coordinated with responsible authorities, it said.

I am writing this while I am in Ukraine again. Fifth or so time after the full scale Russian invasion. I was traveling here to support, to share expertise, to seek investment opportunities now, not waiting until the war ends.

President Gitanas Nausėda, together with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Poland, has addressed President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Council Charles Michel in a letter urging the European Union (EU) to protect its borders with Russia and Belarus, ...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it had blocked access to dozens of European Union (EU) media outlets, including three Lithuanian news websites lrt.lt, 15min.lt and lrytas.lt.