Additional measures have been taken to ensure the security of Lithuania's military personnel in Iraq amid escalating tensions after the recent killing of Iran's top general in Baghdad, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
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Lithuania signed on Thursday an agreement to purchase 200 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs) from the United States for 145 million euros.
The Lithuanian Armed Forces have taken delivery of 110 new Union U5000 trucks, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Over 500 US Army soldiers are coming to Lithuania in October for a half-year rotation, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
Lieutenant Colonel Eugenijus Lastauskas has taken over as head of the Strategic Communication Department of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
Lithuania's Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis on Monday proposed Major General Valdemaras Rupsys for the country's chief of defense.
The Lithuanian Armed Forces will give 50 machine guns and 8,000 rounds of ammunition to the civilian paramilitary organization Riflemen's Union, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
A Norwegian soldier was detained in Vilnius in the early hours of Sunday on suspicion of involvement in a robbery, police said.
Temporary infrastructure will be put in place for the Lithuanian Armed Forces' new artillery battalion in Pajūris, a small town in the district of Šilalė, in the western part of the country.
Expansion of the main training grounds of the Lithuanian Armed Forces will result in a double area of the facilities by 2022, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Tests performed by scientists have shown that tourniquets used by the Lithuanian Armed Forces properly perform their function of stopping bleeding, the military said on Friday.
New barracks are planned to be built in Rukla, in central Lithuania, in 2019, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday passed amendments paving the way for centralizing procurement in the national defense system.
Lithuanian border guards late on Thursday detained a Russian military team on a transit train traveling from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the capital of Moscow, a spokesman for the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said.
Special Operations Forces of the Lithuanian Armed Forces are conducting training in Vilnius on Friday
The Lithuanian Armed Forces and units subordinate to the Interior Ministry will train to operate jointly during Lightning Strike 2017, this year's largest national military exercise kicking off in Marijampolė and Vilkaviškis, in the southwestern part of the country, on Friday.
Timely psychological support has to be available to members of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence, said on Wednesday, commenting on the news that a military intelligence captain had committed suicide while on duty.
Democratic US Senator Richard Durbin said in Vilnius on Tuesday that US troops should to be permanently stationed in the Baltic countries.
Lithuania's Air Force Commander Colonel Audronis Navickas, who is about to be transferred to reserve, says that the information published by the Defence Ministry about his responsibility over helicopter repairs in Russia was misleading.