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On 12-18 February, NATO Air Policing Mission Detachment fighter aircraft were scrambled three times to intercept aircraft of the Russian Federation violating flight rules in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, reports the Ministry of National Defence.
The Citizenship Commission has issued a recommendation to the president that Russian ballerina Ilzė Liepa should lose Lithuanian citizenship, which was granted by exception, as she poses a threat to national security.
On 14 February, a representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Lithuania was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and handed in a diplomatic note expressing a strong protest over the decisions of the Russian Federation to include politicians, civil servants and othe...
On 3 February, the Armed Forces noticed a suspicious login into a user account of its ILIAS distant learning system. The military confirmed this to the public broadcaster LRT.
Russia has declared numerous politicians and officials from the Baltic States and Eastern Europe as “wanted”.
До 1 января 2022 года израильский Национальный институт памяти мучеников и героев Катастрофы европейского еврейства (Яд Вашем) присвоил 924 гражданам Литвы почетное звание Праведников народов мира Righteous Among the Nations Lithuania 2022). Признанные получают именную медаль и Почетную грамоту, а и...
The Citizenship Commission convened on Friday and proposed that President Gitanas Nausėda would strip Russian businessman and former KGB employee Yury Kudimov of Lithuanian citizenship that was granted by exception.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says Moscow’s latest accusation levelled at the Baltic States is yet another sign that Lithuania must boost its security.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on 2-3 February attended an informal meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers (Gymnich) in Brussels to discuss further EU support, including military aid and sanctions, to help Ukraine fight the full-scale Russian aggression, the ministry said.
In an exclusive interview with Estonian Delfi, Andrei Illarionov shares with publisher Hans H. Luik about his experience working with Vladimir Putin, the real motives of the leader of the country that attacked Ukraine, and the behind-the-scenes relationship between the United States and Ukraine. A. ...
A Lithuanian man has been detained in Leningrad Oblast on suspicion of illegally crossing the Estonian-Russian border, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Tuesday, citing the press service of the FSB’s regional border directorate.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis hinted Lithuanian soldiers could be deployed to Gotland, Sweden’s largest island in the Baltic Sea, to protect it from Russia.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Wednesday visited Sweden, where he met with Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Foreign Minister Tobias Billström, Defence Minister Pål Jonson and members of the Riksdag (Parliament), the ministry reports.
Almost a third of Lithuanian residents support the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow individual Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the Paris Olympics as neutrals, a poll commissioned by the LRT public broadcaster finds.
President Gitanas Nausėda thinks that Russia will be focused on the war in Ukraine for two more years but ultimately the Kremlin is willing to challenge NATO.
The Baltic States have decided to build a common defence line to prepare for a possible war, and this move should not be interpreted as calling Western commitments in doubt, says Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.
Water purification technologies have been travelling from Kaunas to Russia via foreign intermediary companies after Moscow launched a full-scale war on Ukraine, the LRT public broadcaster’s investigation team reported on Monday.
Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas does not reveal if President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who visited Lithuania last week, asked for help with repatriation of Ukrainian men who would be mobilised to fight against Russian invaders. However, he admitted that information may be provid...
On Wednesday night, in Vilnius train station, two Belarusians got off the transit train travelling from Kaliningrad to Saint Petersburg via Lithuania and Belarus.
German newspaper Bild has reported that the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) are preparing for a potential conflict with Russia on NATO’s eastern flank, in the Baltic States. Commenting about the Bild article, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania stated that, as intense fighting continues i...