Baltic States: joint MRLS artillery to be developed

On December 21, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian defense ministers agreed to jointly develop a rocket artillery capability. In their joint statement, the ministers “declared their intent to engage in a joint development of regional interoperable Multiple Launch Rocket System capability”. “I cannot say specifically right now how it will look like, as we only have…

Lithuania: railways risk falling under US sanctions for transporting Belarusian cargo

Lithuania’s state-owned railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LTG) risks falling under US sanctions as it continues to transport Belarusian fertilizers, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has warned. She was commenting on LTG’s statement that it had received an official confirmation from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that Washington’s sanctions against Belaruskali, one…