war in Ukraine

The opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats political group in the Lithuanian Seimas has proposed a resolution that would commit the Lithuanian parliament to seeking prosecution of people responsible for attacks on civilians in Ukraine in the Hague Tribunal.

It is tempting to slip into a spiral of sensationalism when describing the concurrent trends in Belarus’s foreign relations and national aspirations, even though—if history is any guide—these trends may be reversed as abruptly as they started. So far, however, tensions have been on the rise along Be...

Lithuania's two largest cities of Vilnius and Kaunas will this month hold concerts to raise money for the treatment of people injured in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine.

Russian human rights activist Elena Vasilieva, founder of the Gruz-200 group (codeword for coffin in the Soviet and contemporary Russian military terminology) explained that Russian soldiers are protesting against participation in the war in eastern Ukraine, zn.ua reports.

Professor Kęstutis Girnius has once again decided on DELFI to calm everyone down by saying there is no real danger of Russian aggression against Lithuania. I once again risk becoming what Mr. Girnius calls a “professional Cassandra” by constantly scaring people with the Russian threat.

The war in Ukraine is a consequence of Europe having failed to draw lessons from the 2008 war in Georgia, when a normal dialogue with Russia was resumed less than two months after the fighting, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says.

Lithuania's Minister of Defence Juozas Olekas says that his French counterpart told him at a meeting earlier this week that Paris was searching for ways to solve the issue of Mistral warships that France had built for Russia but suspended the handover following outcry from EU and NATO allies.

Ukraine needs help in developing the systems and not assistance in the form of weapons, Sergey Grabsky, head of a peacekeepers' association in Ukraine, says.

Earlier this month (October 2014), Scandinavian, and especially Swedish, media have focused on Sweden’s apparently abortive efforts to locate what was allegedly a disabled Russian reconnaissance submarine off its shores near Stockholm. But beyond the glaring evidence of the degradation of Swedish mi...

Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky. He reasons that if the “little green men” and Russian troops turn up in Estonia, for example, Vladimir Putin would warn NATO not to intervene because that would be ...

A group of Ukrainian school students will spend the upcoming autumn holidays in Lithuania.

Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis has been asked by the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs to draft a report on EU-Russia relations.

The number of firearms bought in Lithuania for self-defence has grown after the start of war in Ukraine.

The French Mistral warships that were originally built for Russia, but the deal was suspended following western outrage at Moscow's policies in Ukraine, are too expensive for any NATO member state to buy, former NATO spokesperson James Appathurai told LETA.

The results of Latvia's general elections will not bring major political changes in the country, as the current ruling coalition will remain in power, says Professor Mindaugas Jurkynas of Lithuania's Vytautas Magnus University.

People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov.

Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, social democrat Gediminas Kirkilas, believes that Russia's policies in relation to Ukraine are in a dead-end, while further military action would not bring victories but only increase tension and bring new sanctions.

Explosions and smoke billowing on the horizon in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.

I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty years, as an activist during the Cold War, as a journalist, and at think-tanks1.

Local residents who live near the airport just outside Donetsk take shelter in a basement. This comes as Ukraine's military said Monday it pulled its forces back from defending the airport - the latest in a string of reverses for Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian separatists.