NATO battalion in Lithuania

Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas has revealed that an agreement on the creation of a tank battalion could be signed in November.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived on an official visit to Lithuania on Monday.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is leaving for an official visit to Germany on Wednesday. BNS Lithuania presents the visit's five key topics.

Lieutenant Colonel Rene Braun of Germany took over as commander of NATO's multinational battalion in Lithuania in a ceremony in Rukla on Thursday.

On June 15 His Majesty King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander while conducting a state visit in Lithuania will meet with Dutch soldiers serving in the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battle Group in Rukla. His Majesty will be escorted by President of the Republic of Lithuania HE Dalia Gry...

The Netherlands is building new coalitions within the EU to compensate for the loss of the UK as the union's main free trade champion, and has found partners in the Baltic States. At the same time, a domestic policy issue involving gas supplies and the Dutch stance on Russia have the potential to pu...

The Baltic countries are asking for NATO's multinational battalions deployed to the region to be reinforced with air and naval forces, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said.

United States President Donald Trump pledged on Tuesday that the US would periodically station troops in the Baltic states in an effort to deter Russia.

Russia stationed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in its Kaliningrad region on Monday and intends to leave them there permanently, Lithuania's defense minister and the president said.

NATO troops coming to Lithuania have been warned about break-ins into their smartphones, the Defense Ministry told BNS.

The Czech parliament has approved the deployment of around 250 troops to Lithuania in 2018 as part of NATO's multinational battalion stationed in the country.

Several tens of troops from Luxembourg arrived in the port of Klaipeda on Monday evening to join NATO's multinational battalion stationed in Lithuania, the Defense Ministry said.

Luxembourg's troops are arriving in Lithuania on Monday to join the combat group of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence battalion stationed in Lithuania.

Norbert Lammert, president of Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is coming to Lithuania this week, lzinios.lt news portal reported.

Military activity in the Baltic Sea region has recently heightened, however, the situation is under control, says Lithuania's Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis.

The world clearly understands that key threats to transatlantic security in our region arise from the militarization of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the Zapad military exercise and Belarus' Astravyets nuclear power plant, which has become a geopolitical weapon, President Dalia Grybauskaitė sa...

The formation of NATO's enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battlegroup in Lithuania was completed with the arrival of around 200 Norwegian serviceman and servicewoman in Kaunas Airport on Monday evening, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.