The Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai is on Monday hosting a ceremony of changeover of its commander – Colonel Vidmantas Raklevičius will be replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Marius Matulaitis.
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NATO fighter-jets serving in the air policing mission were scrambled once from Lithuania last week to identify a Russian warplane flying above the Baltic Sea.
The Russian warplane that caused NATO fighter-jets to take off from the Lithuanian Air Force base on Wednesday was flying next to the Baltic states but did not violate the Lithuanian air-space, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday evening in a message that updated a report from the Dutc...
After the Malaysian airliner MN17 was shot down in Eastern Ukraine in mid-July, the number of flights across the Lithuanian air-space has increased, says the head of the country's Civil Aviation Administration.
