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The world is still waiting for measures of the Minsk Agreement to be implemented. Ukraine experiences continual military confrontation, and situation in Debaltseve region has also worsened dramatically. According to the recent information thousands of Ukrainian troops could again be trapped in the D...
The West and Ukraine have lost the war against Russia – this could sum up the results of the second Minsk agreement. How and why did this happen and what are the consequences?
The Ukrainian request to deploy peace-keepers in its Eastern districts might be given theoretical consideration, if the situation stabilizes, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says, adding that this would require a change in Russia's negative stance.
The West must tighten the existing sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow's and pro-Russian separatists' failure to comply with the Minsk agreement, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.
Lithuanian Social Democrat Gediminas Kirkilas, deputy speaker of the Seimas, chair of the Committee on European Affairs, has met with Jutta Schmitz, German ambassador to Lithuania.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday flew to the military operation zone in Ukraine's eastern regions, reports Ukrainian media.
Lithuania's representative at the United Nations (UN) Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė has strongly criticized Russia for supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine, emphasizing the right for Ukrainians to defend their land amid the continued siege of the city of Debaltseve.
News agency TASS reports that Moscow is discontent with what it calls "provocative actions" of Lithuania and supply of military equipment to Ukraine.
Pro-Russian separatists are not keeping up with the truce terms, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says, stressing that Ukraine has to state the fact. He also hopes tighter sanctions against Russia from Western leaders.
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-Soviet leader and honorary chairman of the conservative Homeland Union, says that the Minks agreement for ceasefire between Kiev's forces and Moscow-supported separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, which was signed on Thursday, is worse than the Munich a...
The Minsk talks, which ended on Thursday in an agreement on ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, have proven that the "war button is pushed" in Moscow, says a lecturer at Vilnius University's International Relations and Political Science Institute Vytis Jurkonis. He emphasized the importance of putting the...
The four-way negotiations in Minsk failed to settle the key issue on control of Ukraine's borders, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.
After 14 hours of tough talks, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have reached an agreement on what to do about situation in eastern Ukraine, where hostilities have already claimed over 5,400 lives. However, the leaders did not hold a customary joint press conference.
It's too early to speak about real progress in eastern Ukraine following the Minsk talks as it's still not clear whether the agreements reached will be implemented, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says, adding that no final decisions have been made on key issues.
The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be "bad" or "very bad", says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, commenting on the talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine that continue in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday.
As four-way peace talks over the conflict in Ukraine have been ongoing in Minsk, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius believes the main task is to reach an agreement on the control of the international border between Ukraine and Russia.
The European Union's (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says that the French and German leaders attending the Minsk talks on peace in Ukraine on Wednesday will speak on the EU's behalf, emphasizing the historic responsibility of the talks.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she does not have high hopes for the Minsk peace talks, which are starting on Wednesday and will focus on working out a solution for Russia's undeclared war on Ukraine.
While Ukraine's government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbass region, Western leaders are engaging in a tense diplomacy game with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be spoken to in the language of ultimatums at talks on the Ukraine crisis, a Russian radio station quoted the Kremlin as saying on Monday.
