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In early October, the Estonian media reported that Russia was transporting, by ship, Iskander short-range ballistic missiles from Ust Luga (Leningrad Oblast) to the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad (ERR, October 7). This news sparked a wave of commentary by politicians and experts in the Baltic Sea reg...
Fighter-jets conducting the NATO air-policing mission were last week scrambled once to intercept a Russian warplane flying above the Baltic Sea.
Two Russian warships have recently entered the Baltic Sea, NATO confirmed on Wednesday.
An intensifying demonstration of Russia's military power in the region poses a threat to security not only in the region, but also in the whole of Europe, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday.
Stationing of the nuclear-capable Iskander missile system in the Russian Kaliningrad region between Lithuania and Poland indicates assertive behavior on the Moscow side, NATO's top-ranking General Salvatore Farina said in Vilnius on October 20.
Russia's increasingly active military actions are a geopolitical threat to the Western world, however, the situation should be deescalated to avoid major military conflicts, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in Brussels on Thursday.
Europe must continue its sanctions on Russia amid the Russian military action in Syria and Ukraine, as well as the demonstration of nuclear-capable weaponry in the Baltic Sea region, Finland's President Sauli Niinisto said at a meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart, Dalia Grybauskaitė, on Tuesday.
Russian military ships and aircraft, which have become more active in the Baltic Sea recently, pose no threat to civilians, Russia's embassy in Vilnius said on Thursday, a day after Lithuania handed a diplomatic note to the ambassador.
NATO's airborne warning and control system (AWACS) airplane is to land on Thursday in the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, in the northern part of the country, the Defence Ministry said.
The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday handed a diplomatic note to Russia's ambassador in Vilnius, Alexander Udaltsov, over incidents in Lithuania's exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea.
Russia is deploying nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed on Saturday.
The Lithuanian Defenče Ministry declined on Friday to comment on Estonian media reports that Russia is transporting Iskander missiles to its Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, but added that Russia's military maneuvers have been a cause for concern for some time now.
According to a government source known to ERR’s Estonian news portal, the Russian Baltic Fleet is moving an Iskander-M missile system from Ust-Luga to Kaliningrad on a civilian vessel, ERR News reported.
Reactions in Moscow to NATO's decision to deploy four international NATO battalions in the Baltic states and Poland have ranged from condemnation to calls for the invasion of the Baltic states. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė is meeting on Tuesday with representatives of the Lithuanian community in Kaliningrad to discuss the possibility of opening a Lithuanian school in the Russian exclave. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Russia has fired the top military commanders of its Baltic Fleet, which is based at Kaliningrad, in an unprecedented move. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Lithuania would not feel the effects of the Kaliningrad liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal within the next decade because Russia is contractually obligated to pay Lithuania for pipeline access regardless of whether or not the pipeline is used, said Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis.
NATO fighter jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic countries were scrambled three times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft, including bombers, flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Monday.
A new national security report has made it clear that Russia hasn't left Lithuania alone - looking for weak points, gathering information, manipulating public opinion through the media, and recruiting businessmen, public figures and employees at judicial institutions.
Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis, who sent out a letter to ministers in Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Finland urging them not to buy electricity from the nuclear power plants in Belarus or Kaliningrad, received the first positive answer to his letter when he met with Estonian Minister of Economy and ...
