Lithuania's Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis has appointed a new defense policy director and the director general for capabilities and munitions as of Tuesday.
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Vaidotas Urbelis, a senior official at the Lithuanian Defence Ministry, next April will start serving as defence adviser at the country's embassy to the United States.
The Russian aggression in Ukraine has shown that countries bordering Russia may need special forces, says the Lithuanian Defence Ministry's Political Director Vaidotas Urbelis.
As the head of Latvia's foreign policy committee says Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia could be Russia's next target, after the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, the Baltics' defence ministries tell Radio Sweden what defence help they want from Sweden.
The United States and Lithuania have agreed to sign a new agreement on defence cooperation as early as this year, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday.
On 15 January, a delegation of the Ministry of Defence of Canada headed by Director General of International Security Policy Department Rear Admiral Gilles Couturier conducted a visit to the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania.
NATO leaders decided at the summit in Wales on Friday to establish headquarters in Lithuania and the other two Baltic states, with their functions and structure to be finalized within this autumn, Lithuanian officials said.
