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A pre-trial investigation has been opened into violation of international sanctions amid reports that a Vičiūnai Group company allegedly transported sanctioned goods and battlefield items to Russia.

On Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda opened the Baltic Sea High Level Energy Security Meeting at Vilnius Town Hall, said the president’s press service.

Public broadcaster LRT has reported that Plungės kooperatinė prekyba, a company of Vičiūnai Group, more than ten times transported sanctioned goods from Lithuania to Vičiūnai-Rus factory in Sovetsk, Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast.

On 25-31 March, the NATO Air Policing Mission fighter aircraft were scrambled six times to intercept aircraft of the Russian Federation violating flight rules in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the National Defence Ministry reports.

Valeriy Ivanov, former leader of pro-Soviet organisation Yedinstvo, has missed the deadline to appeal against the Migration Department’s decision to send him away from Lithuania and will now be expelled from the country.

Kremlin propaganda portals and social media accounts are actively spreading news about the alleged involvement of a charity foundation by Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska in child trafficking. They allege that children are sold to into slavery, trafficked for organs, or send to paedophiles in wea...

Social media is replete with content attempting to justify Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. It is asserted that the United Nations (UN) Charter grants Russia the right to denazify other countries if it perceives a Nazi threat. "Lie Detector” debunks these claims as false and explains why.

A missile launched by Russia at western Ukraine entered Polish airspace on Sunday night. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis, who paid a working visit to the United States, calls to send a clear message to Russia that missiles or drones entering NATO airspace will be shot...

Rusijos žiniasklaida skelbia, kad žudynes Maskvos koncertų salėje surengę teroristai buvo penki, su savimi jie turėjo didelį kiekį šaudmenų ir degaus skysčio, veidus slėpė po kaukėmis. Pasak liudininkų, į žmones šaudę žudikai veikė taip, tarsi viską būtų iš anksto anksto kruopščiai suplanavę ir rimt...

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda calls to ban Russian grain import to the European Union and to include Russia’s atomic energy corporation Rosatom, more banks and Russian aluminium in the EU’s 14th package of sanctions on Moscow.

Retired US General Ben Hodges, despite his official retirement, remains deeply involved in NATO logistics and advising on security matters in Eastern Europe. In an exclusive interview with DELFI, he emphasizes the crucial role of Finland and Sweden's NATO membership in bolstering the alliance's defe...

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda notes that the security situation will not improve after the rigged presidential election in Russia.

Lithuanian volunteer Tadas Tumas, who was killed in Ukraine in a Russian drone strike, was laid to rest in Vilnius on 16 March.

Director of the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) Vilmantas Vitkauskas describes the assault on Russian opposition representative Leonid Volkov in Vilnius as a well planned and professional operation. He told public radio LRT on Thursday that this was the first such case of political terroris...

Food product manufacturer Vičiūnai, linked to Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis, which had promised to withdraw from the Russian market, represented Russian food industry interests in meetings in Moscow, Lithuania’s public radio LRT reports.

2024 год станет годом соревнования военных промышленностей без особых изменений на линии фронта, считает американский генерал в отставке, бывший командующий армии США в Европе Бен Ходжес. В интервью Delfi в кулуарах Russia Conference в Тарту он объяснил, почему Олаф Шольц не хочет давать Украине Tau...

Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) believes that Tuesday’s attack on Russian citizen Leonid Volkov, former chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), was likely organised and carried out by Russia. He was assaulted and beaten outside his home in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, suf...

Law enforcement says that a large police force responded to a report on Tuesday about an attack in Vilnius on Leonid Volkov, a colleague of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

On Monday, 11 March, when the ban on cars with Russian number plates took effect in Lithuania and the entire European Union, Lithuanian Customs officers stopped the first car with Russian number plates at Medininkai border checkpoint.

The State Security Department (VSD) says 1,415 foreign nationals were found as posing a threat to Lithuania’s national security last year, after screening more than 120 thousand foreigners living in the country or visiting.