US troops currently in Lithuania will Wednesday perform the first combat firing with main combat tanks M1A2 Abrams, the Ministry of National Defence said.
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Russia is threatening other countries, because this is Moscow's way of working, US House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry said in Vilnius on Thursday.
Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and a US Congressional delegation are visiting Lithuania on Thursday, with the situation in Ukraine and regional security topping the agenda of their meetings with Lithuanian leaders.
Roughly 250 soldiers from the company of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Division, US Army, and the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas Mechanised Infantry Battalion are training at Exercise Joint Punch at the Gaižiūnų Training Area (Pabradė) this week.
Lithuanians of the US Capital region celebrated on Sunday, 15 February, the 97th anniversary of Lithuania as the modern day State, on one of the most blistery, cold days in recent memory. The day’s celebration started with a Latin mass in St. Matthews Cathedral. Monsignor Rolandas Makrickas of the A...
