Vilnius is planning to buy the HIMARS rocket artillery systems from the United States, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry has confirmed. “Lithuania is planning to acquire HIMARS from the US at the same time as Estonia and Latvia,” the ministry said in a written comment. Vilnius will sign the contract “separately” from the other Baltic States…
Even if Russia cuts energy supply to Europe, Lithuania will not run out of gas, the country’s Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has reassured. However, if there is a need for rationing, household consumers will be prioritised over industry. “We have a certain algorithm in Lithuania that defines what to do if there is a real…
Lithuanian airline GetJet will resume flights in Georgia by offering multiple charter connections between the Baltic States and the country, Deputy Economy Minister Mariam Kvrivishvili has announced. Kvrivishvili said the Baltic States had been “one of the important” tourist markets for Georgia and noted the Government “actively worked” to increase the awareness of the country’s…
Lithuania’s Ministry of Defence was going to buy possibly Russia-made equipment for NATO fighter jets, but cancelled the purchase after the media became interested in the acquisition. Last year, the Defence Ministry announced a tender and selected the winning bidder, Baltijos Tiekimas, from which it planned to buy mobile voltage frequency converters. The successful bidder…
Freight traffic between mainland Russia and the exclave of Kaliningrad, which bordered Lithuania, resumed this week, as the first train was undergoing checks on July 26. “Yesterday, the first train set to cross the territory of Lithuania arrived,” Kotryna Dzikaraite, a spokeswoman for Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), said. A spokeswoman for the Customs Department…
Lithuania would have no difficulty meeting the European Commission’s recommendation to reduce its natural gas consumption if there is a shortage of gas this coming winter, Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys has said. Kreivys said Lithuania could replace gas used for heating in Vilnius with fuel oil, noting that businesses were cutting their gas use as…
LTG Cargo, the freight subsidiary of Lithuania’s state-owned railway group Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), informed its customers on July 22 that it was resuming the transit of sanctioned goods between mainland Russia and its Kaliningrad exclave, in line with the European Commission’s guidance. “In accordance with the relevant EU Council Regulation and the EC…