Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijosaitis says that selling off the Russian operations of his company is taking more time than expected. Matijosaitis is an owner of Viciunai Group, a major Lithuanian food production company. Viciunai Group’s owners and managers have been promising to sell their business in Russia ever since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in late…
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine now in its seventh month, Lithuania has called to tighten exports of dual-use goods to Russia at the EU level. “As military resources used by Russia for the war become scarcer, this leaves room for resourcefulness, and certain goods and products, which were never used as military means before, might…
Lithuania’s armed forces have now fixed technical and software problems on their Germany-made Boxer IFV platform that houses an Israeli turret, the country’s Defence Ministry reports. “Upgrades are now being installed in vehicles delivered to Lithuania and this process will be finalised in November. The delivery of new Vilkas Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) to the…
The first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine adapted to the Omicron variant have been delivered to Lithuania, the Health Ministry reports. The first shipment to reach the country on September 6 contained 51,840 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Julijanas Galisanskis of the Health Ministry said, adding that the remaining 100,000 doses should be delivered next…
The Lithuanian government is discussing a package of measures that will include covering part of heating bills and setting maximum electricity and gas prices, Mykolas Majauskas, chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance, said on September 6. The package will also include business support measures, which are now being coordinated, according to Majauskas.…
Lithuania’s Energy Ministry is unveiling an energy-saving plan on September 7, which will include proposals to reduce speed on motorways, as well as limit heating and cooling in buildings. The plan, which will be presented to the Cabinet later that day, will include lowering indoor temperatures to 19 degrees C during the heating season, limiting…
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…