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Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Thursday briefed ambassadors of European Union (EU) member-states residing in Vilnius on the foreign policy course of the new 17 th government, accentuating that consistency, activeness and continuity would be key in the area.

As the Baltic States continue to confront Russian air and naval power in the Baltic Sea, two small missile ships, the Zelenyy Dol and the Serpukhov entered this crowded body of water at the end of October. These Russian vessels will reportedly become part of a newly formed Baltic division in the nea...

Lithuania and Latvia are planning to cooperate in an effort to synchronize procurement of military equipment.

Российской авиации позволили использовать авиабазу в Иране. Информация о том, что самолеты ВКС России приземлились на иранском аэродроме, появилась в соцсетях, а также на арабском портале Al-Masdar News.

With tensions between Moscow and NATO at its worst since the end of the Cold War, it is now more important than ever that each side understand one another and maintain channels of serious communication, argues Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Lithuania is to spend 1.79% of its GDP on defence next year, according to the draft budget for 2017. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The NATO summit in Warsaw has been lauded as historical, a breaking point that gave the Baltic states and Poland a reason to celebrate and stop fearing potential aggression from Russia.

Lithuania's parliament, the Seimas, on Thursday passed a law making military conscription permanent. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

A NATO military exercise kept farmers in Ukmergė District awake all night and left them dumbfounded when they found soldiers shooting rounds in their gardens.

Historical sources document medieval Lithuanian tribes to have been not just victims of crusader attacks but expansionists and pillagers in their own right, fierce warriors whose might terrorized their neighbours, including fellow Balts, and forged empires.

The first group of recruits who have completed the reintroduced mandatory nine-month military service was transferred to reserve in a solemn ceremony in Lithuania's port city of Klaipėda on Saturday.

The US European Command said last weekend that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet "performed erratic and aggressive maneuvers", flying within 50 feet of an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea.

US European Command said on Sunday that a Russian jet had made aggressive manoeuvres near a US reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea, a second incident between Russian and American forces in the region in the past week, Reuters reports.

Several Russian Su-24 attack aircraft conducted a “simulated attack profile” against the USS Donald Cook warship in the Baltic Sea, with one of the jets on Tuesday flying within nine metres of the destroyer.

MP Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, suggested in an interview that Russian forces could have landed on the Lithuanian coast of the Curonian Spit during military exercise.