Lithuania will spend an additional 148 million euros on defence this year and buy Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV), HIMARS rocket systems, radars and ammunition. On September 28, the country’s government approved the allocation of additional funds planned in the budget after the Finance Ministry updated its GDP forecast, as overall defence funding was linked…
Lithuania will get back to the issue of handing over its PzH 2000 German howitzers to Ukraine later, once the government receives an assessment from the military leadership on the possible impact of such a decision, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says. The issue was not on the agenda of the National Defence Council’s meeting on…
Foreign arms manufacturers are considering to set up a production facility in Lithuania, says Laurynas Kasciunas, conservative chairman of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defence. On September 21, the committee talked about the Lithuanian military’s stockpile and national production capacity. The war in Ukraine has shown the need to stock up as much…
The construction of the Permanent Logistics Support Area has been launched in Rukla in central Lithuania, the Defence Ministry reports. The project is aimed at improving service conditions for the NATO eFP Battle Group and meeting its logistics needs in Lithuania, according to the ministry. The project will include the construction of a service and…
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has called on Western leaders to step up military support to Kyiv against Russia’s aggression after new mass graves and evidence of torture have been found in liberated Ukrainian territories. “Russia continues with its genocide against the Ukrainian nation. Mass graves and torture chambers in the city of Izium, which has…
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said the country should adopt joint decisions on air and coastal defence with Poland. “We need to strengthen practical defence cooperation between our countries, including the possibility of adopting joint decisions in the areas of coastal defence and air defence,” Nauseda said in a statement. A joint meeting of the Lithuanian…
On September 16, Lithuania began building a new military base in Pajuris, a small town in the western district of Silale. Darnu Group will build the new military infrastructure site under a contract signed with the Defence Ministry last year. The new complex will be built next to modular barracks that have housed the Brigadier…