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In order to enhance border security and tackle cigarette smuggling, Lithuania temporarily closed two of its checkpoints on the border with Belarus starting Friday, leaving four operational. The interior minister has revealed that security threats are being analysed and under certain conditions Lithu...

Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė has announced that the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) and the Armed Forces will hold joint exercises in August. Border guards and the military will train to cooperate in accordance to potential security threat scenarios at the border.

The State Border Guard Service (VSAT) announced that a fake image was posted online claiming that a mercenary from Wagner private military company had crossed the border from Belarus to Lithuania.

The State Border Guard Service of Lithuania (VSAT) is clarifying whether a border guard vehicle might have crossed the Lithuanian-Belarusian border when manoeuvring.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises Lithuanians not to travel to Belarus due to hostile activities and provocations of the Minsk regime against Lithuanian citizens. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantas Adomėnas notes that Belarusian border guards pressure and blackmail travellers.

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...

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...

Lithuania’s Constitutional Court (KT) has judged that forcible accommodation of migrants in foreigners’ registration centres after they had illegally crossed the state border was unconstitutional. Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says authorities started lifting restrictions on the movement of migra...

Lithuania will swiftly switch back to a state of emergency mechanism in case of changes in the situation on its border with Belarus, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite has said.

The Lithuanian Interior Minister expects a physical barrier of over 500 kilometers along the border with Belarus to be completed in just over a year, by September 2022, with up to 152 million euros to be earmarked for the project.

Lithuanian border guards have in the past 24 hours turned away around 30 migrants attempting to cross into country from Belarus illegally and allowed one person in on humanitarian grounds, the State Border Guard Service said on Friday morning.

Lithuanian border guards have in the past 24 hours turned away more than ten migrants attempting to cross into country from Belarus illegally and allowed four people in on humanitarian grounds, the State Border Guard Service said on Thursday morning.

Lithuanian border guards have detained around 70 kilos of cocaine and amphetamine with a total value believed to be ranging from 5.6 million to 7.1 million euros, the country's State Border Guard Service has said on Tuesday.

The border guard zone along part of Lithuania's border with the Russian region of Kaliningrad will be eliminated as of 2021, Lithuania's State Border Guard Service said.

Lithuanian's Foreign and National Defense Ministries and the State Border Guard Service have on Thursday warned about fake news being spread on their behalf regarding alleged detention of a Polish diplomat and invitation to perform mandatory military service.

The capacity of the Salcininkai international border checkpoint on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border might decrease for four days in December due to power network repairs.

A total of 507 Belarusian citizens have been allowed to come to Lithuania on humanitarian, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

Lithuania's State Border Guard Service said on Monday it had signed a contract on the installation of cameras along the country's land border of almost two kilometers with Russia's Kaliningrad Region on the Curonian Spit.

377 Belarusian citizens have been allowed to come to Lithuania on humanitarian grounds but only 82 have used the opportunity so far, and another 32 Belarusian have asked for asylum upon arrival to Lithuania, the Interior Ministry told BNS on Thursday.

Lithuanian haulage companies are facing delays and increased costs after Belarus has stepped up border checks on Lithuanian-registered trucks, the president of the national road carriers' association Linava has said.