Russia

By the end of 2023, two different trends have emerged quite clearly as it comes to the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

The Baltic States and Poland are calling on their European allies to start working on a 13th package of sanctions against Russia, says Lithuanian Ambassador to the European Union (EU) Arnoldas Pranckevičius.

On 18 December, the European Union adopted a new package of sanctions, stepping up restrictive measures against Russia. The package imposes additional restrictions on Russia’s economy and 147 individuals and entities are added to the sanctions list, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia...

MP Saulius Skvernelis, leader of the party Democrats For Lithuania, proposes holding an advisory referendum regarding potential changes and funding of the national defence system.

Vilnius is hosting Ukraine Green Recovery Conference on 28 November-1 December. On Tuesday, Virginijus Sinkevičius, European commissioner for environment, oceans and fisheries, and Ruslan Strilets, Ukraine’s minister of environmental protection and natural resources, spoke at the conference. The com...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis believes that Lithuania has to step up its national security and defence efforts soon as Russia, aided by its partner Belarus, is bound to continue posing a threat.

Chief of Defence of Lithuania General Valdemaras Rupšys assures the public that there is no reason to doubt NATO’s security guarantees, all the more so as Russia will not have capabilities to attack the alliance in the near future. Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis has meanwhile rai...

Lithuania must reconsider its security concept as soon as possible in response to dramatic developments in the international arena, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis. The global structure created after the Cold War is crumbling right in our very eyes and yet Lithuania still avo...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis said in a recent interview to the news agency ELTA that Lithuania should reconsider its national security concepts. Commenting about this on Tuesday, the Conservative leader told reporters that Russia has been recovering and is accumulating resource...

Hundreds of people rallied in a square next to the Seimas on Friday noon in protest against the present forest policy. The protest action will last until 8 p.m. and will feature concerts of a number of Lithuanian bands and artists.

Activists are staging a rally in protest against the current forest policy on Friday – “Whose Forest?” will take place in front of the National Martynas Mažvydas Library.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs has urged Western democracies to supply more weapons to Kyiv, as the defeat of Ukraine could provoke Russia’s attack on other countries.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis believes that Lithuania should continue engaging with the European Union striving for tougher sanctions against Russia and Belarus. Lithuanian Railways (LTG) addressed law enforcement on Tuesday after it transpired that luxurious cars were being exp...

On Tuesday, Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas and Lithuania’s Chief of Defence General Valdemaras Rupšys visited the Rokantiškės military base near Vilnius. The minister says that German troops deployed in Lithuania would live not only in Rukla and Rūdninkai but also in Vilnius.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Wednesday attended an event to mark the launch of all four battery storage parks with a combined capacity of 200 MW in Lithuania.

All four battery storage parks with a combined capacity of 200 MW in Lithuania become officially operational on Wednesday, a key step towards increasing energy independence from Russia, the energy minister says.

On 10 October, an Informal video conference of EU ministers of foreign affairs on the situation in Israel and the Middle East region took place in Oman following the attack on Israel by Hamas, reports the Foreign Ministry.

President Gitanas Nausėda participates in a meeting of the European Political Community in Granada, Spain. On Thursday, the leaders of the European Union and partner countries discussed issues of security, strengthening resilience to global threats, and effective multilateralism, said the president’...

Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says Poland’s recent statement on arms deliveries to Ukraine is paving way for a win for Russia only, but she expected Kyiv and Warsaw will eventually resolve the dispute over Ukrainian grain exports.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis met on Wednesday with the under-secretary-general for political affairs of the United Nations, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, to discuss the role of the UN in pursuing Russia’s accountability for aggression against Ukraine, the ministry said in a press release.