Lithuania's defense budget for 2018 should be 2.006 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis cited the latest calculations on Tuesday.
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Raimundas Karoblis (April 14, 1968) – Lithuanian diplomat.
After Lithuania reaches 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for defense next year, the defense funding should no longer be increased, with money directed towards reduction of social exclusion, says Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Lithuania intends to slightly increase the number of conscripts to be recruited to the Armed Forces next year, as compared with 2017.
New barracks are planned to be built in Rukla, in central Lithuania, in 2019, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
The Zapad 2017 military exercise held by Russia and Belarus last week involved several times more troops than official numbers and saw bombardments and other dangerous actions take place close to the Baltic countries' borders, top-ranking Lithuanian military intelligence and Defense Ministry officia...
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis will on Tuesday present an initial assessment of Zapad 2017, a Russia-Belarus joint military exercise that ended last week.
Participation in international missions benefits Lithuania's Armed Forces, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said at the parliament on Thursday in his presentation of the bid to send more troops to such operations.
As Lithuania plans to increase its contribution to international missions, the country's parliament is asked to give the green light for sending more troops to fight the jihadists.
The public in Lithuania is too nervous about Zapad 2017, a large-scale military exercise that has started in Russia and Belarus, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Thursday morning.
Lithuania's Armed Forces has been authorized to shoot down unwanted drones, as the increasingly popular unmanned flying devices may serve as tools of international intelligence.
Unknown persons have hacked into Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis' personal Facebook account and deleted it, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
Lithuania will next year join the elite club of NATO member states spending 2 percent of GDP on defense, but Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis believes that the country should not stop after reaching the target.
Lithuania has suggested establishing a so-called military Schengen project within the European Union (EU) to facilitate movement of military capacities, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis, together with his counterparts from other EU countries, on Thursday will take part in a strategic tabletop exercise in Tallinn aimed at countering cyber attacks.
The governmental Extreme Situations Commission decided after a meeting at the Interior Ministry on Tuesday that institutions in charge of civil safety would work under a usual regime during the upcoming Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2017 training.
The US Army's commander in Europe on Friday called on Russia to invite media representatives to observe next month's military exercise Zapad (West), saying that there is not much ground for trusting the numbers given by Moscow about the scale of the drills.
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the US Army commander in Europe, will start a two-day visit to Lithuania on Thursday.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, accompanied by Lithuanian and Portuguese defense ministers and chiefs of defense, on Tuesday met with Portuguese rotational troops stationed in Tauragė, in western Lithuania.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to visit German troops stationed in Rukla, in the central Lithuanian district of Jonava, on Friday, the second day of his official visit to Lithuania.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis is attending Ukraine's Independence Day events in Kiev on Thursday.