Ukraine

On Thursday, ministers of justice of the Council of Europe convened in Vilnius and considered further steps towards establishing the Special Tribunal for Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine. Vilnius hosted the conference entitled Towards Accountability for International Crimes Committed in ...

Social media has been buzzing with false reports claiming that all countries supporting the return of Crimea to Ukraine are in hysterics because the territory supposedly does not belong to Ukraine.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with Ukrainian leaders – President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk – in Kyiv on Saturday, the Government’s press service reports.

These days mark two and a half years since the start of Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine – and almost the same time has passed since the introduction of restrictive measures against Russia that had soon turned it into the world’s most san­ctioned nation.

Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Šimonytė will travel to Ukraine on Friday.

Speaking about the military operation in Russia’s Kursk region, Ambassador of Ukraine to Lithuania Petro Beshta stressed that Ukraine does not need foreign territories.

Earlier this week, during the visit in Kyiv, Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas met with Minister of Defence of Ukraine Rustem Umerov and Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin, stated the Ministry of National Defence.

Lithuania may invest in Ukraine’s defence industry, Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas has revealed.

The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has carried out a repeat testing of combat drones from Lithuanian manufacturers near Kyiv in a battlefield-realistic environment, the National Defence Ministry said in a press release on Thursday.

National Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas says he is familiar with the case of Kęstutis Kvietkus amid reports that the man is fighting alongside Russians in Ukraine.

On Wednesday, the Government of Lithuania approved allocating EUR 1 million for the reconstruction of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, who is attending the NATO summit in Washington, DC, says that Lithuania’s security is determined in Ukraine, whereas NATO countries still have not taken all the measures to prevent Russia’s aggression.

President Gitanas Nausėda, who is attending the NATO summit in the United States, says that NATO leaders have agreed that Ukraine’s integration in the Alliance is an irreversible process.

Public organisation Blue/Yellow received EUR 2.1 million in donations last year which came from residents paying income tax, the State Tax Inspectorate (VMI) said Thursday. Its support grew by EUR 400,000 from a year before.

On Saturday, Lithuanian First Lady Diana Nausėdienė attended the two-year anniversary celebration of the Ukrainian Centre at the Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, reports the presidency.

The Ministry of National Defence has registered a proposal for the Government to withdraw from a convention banning the use of cluster munitions. The draft legislation is currently being coordinated with responsible authorities, it said.

I am writing this while I am in Ukraine again. Fifth or so time after the full scale Russian invasion. I was traveling here to support, to share expertise, to seek investment opportunities now, not waiting until the war ends.

More than 12,000 Ukrainian children of all ages are registered in Lithuania, according to the country’s Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. Of these, 9,640 are pupils, 3,300 of whom attend schools accredited by both the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and the Ukrainian Ministry of Education a...

President Gitanas Nausėda and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky have signed a bilateral agreement committing to security cooperation for the coming decade.

Five Lithuanian men were injured in a missile attack in Ukraine on Monday morning as they were delivering military aid to Ukrainian soldiers, 15min.lt news website reported late Tuesday.