Soldiers

A solemn ceremony honouring and farewelling the four US Army soldiers who died in Pabradė is taking place in central Vilnius Thursday.

A ceremony to honour the memory of the four fallen US Army soldiers is shortly to begin in Cathedral Square in Vilnius, the Ministry of National Defence has said.

Lithuanians have already donated over EUR 150,000 in an initiative by Laisvės TV online channel to help families of the four US soldiers who died in Pabradė Training Area in an accident last week, the latest data show.

Body of the fourth US Army soldier was discovered in Lithuania on Tuesday.

The search operation for the fourth missing US soldier continued overnight in the Pabradė Training Area, and the efforts will continue until he is found, Minister of National Defence Dovilė Šakalienė told LRT Radio on Tuesday morning.

A memorial could be built to honour the memory of the three US soldiers who have lost their lives near the Pabradė Training Area, Švenčionys District Municipality suggested Tuesday.

Lithuania’s border service says an American allegedly detained by Belarus is not linked to the recent incident in the Pabradė Training Area where three US soldiers were found dead in an armoured vehicle submerged in a swamp after gone missing last Tuesday.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas does not comment about the fate of missing US soldiers after their sunken armoured vehicle was recovered from a swamp. The PM says the United States would be the first to make any announcements.

On 26 March, after the Amber Grid System Control Centre received information about the search for military equipment in the Pabradė district, the 22 km long section of the Pabradė-Visaginas gas pipeline was shut down at 13:32 p.m. Amber Grid specialists depressurised the pipeline and reduced its pre...

US Ambassador to Lithuania Kara C. McDonald on Thursday visited Pabradė Training Area, where four American soldiers and an armoured vehicle went missing during a military exercise two days earlier. The ambassador thanked Lithuania for its support, calling the country a "model ally".

Four American soldiers and a tracked vehicle have disappeared after a military exercise in Pabradė, eastern Lithuania, the military said in an update on Wednesday.

Soldiers who were killed in the fights for Lithuania’s freedom were commemorated on Friday at the Grand Duke Gediminas Staff Battalion in Vilnius.

Over 10,000 active reserve soldiers will receive their call-up notices for training in April and May, the military said Tuesday. More than 2,500 cadets are expected to be called up to the spring exercise Thunder Storm 2024, the largest national exercise organised since Lithuania regained its indepen...

A Lithuanian soldier Tadas Tumas called ‘Milžinas’ (Giant) was killed in Ukraine on Friday, 15min.lt news website reports.

A new package of military assistance from the National Defence Ministry was delivered to Ukraine on Friday.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis hinted Lithuanian soldiers could be deployed to Gotland, Sweden’s largest island in the Baltic Sea, to protect it from Russia.

Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas does not reveal if President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who visited Lithuania last week, asked for help with repatriation of Ukrainian men who would be mobilised to fight against Russian invaders. However, he admitted that information may be provid...

Eight soldiers doing their compulsory initial military service in a Lithuanian battalion have tested positive for COVID-19, the military said on Sunday.