All Lithuanian border guards should receive NATO-standard compliant weapons until the end of 2023, Rustamas Liubajevas, the commander of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT), has said. “We are planning to fully meet our needs next year,” he told reporters. The Lithuanian Armed Forces transferred 200 G-36 automatic rifles to border guards some time…
The Lithuanian Armed Forces is undergoing significant upgrades. Construction of a new military campus has started near Vilnius, and two more will soon be launched in Silale and Siauliai. New ammunition depots are also being built. In addition to that, the ministry is planning to buy new weapons and expects the military budget, which has…
Using fuel oil, or mazut, for district heating in Vilnius during the coming winter season will help keep heating bills for households down, according to Mayor Remigijus Simasius. “We can see that prices for all energy resources are absurdly high. This is affecting us in Vilnius just as much as anywhere else. It’s just that…
Businessman Igor Udovickij, the top shareholder of Biriu Kroviniu Terminalas (Bulk Cargo Terminal, or BKT), a Klaipeda port company that used to handle Belarusian fertilisers, has applied for regulatory clearance to buy 30% of BKT’s shares from the sanction-hit Belarusian fertiliser producer Belaruskali. “Concentration is being implemented by Igor Udovickij by purchasing 30% of shares…
Russian nationals have crossed the Lithuanian border 130,000 times since the start of the Ukraine war in late February, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has said, arguing for measures to restrict Russians’ access to the EU. “Over 130,000 Russian citizens with a Russian passport and a Schengen visa have crossed the Lithuanian border since the start…
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that he would rather see the government subsidise energy costs than raise defence spending to 3% of GDP in 2023, if there were not enough money for both. “We must set our priorities very clearly: if our financial and macroeconomic situation allows it, I’d say that both priorities should be…
Lithuanian Railways (LTG) said on September 3 it received advance payments for 2.5-million-euro-worth of Russian transit freight shipments to and from Kaliningrad, meaning that it would continue to transport goods to and from the exclave for around three weeks. Further transit shipments between mainland Russia and its Kaliningrad region will depend on whether LTG’s customers…