Lithuania is to increase its defense spending to between 5 percent and 6 percent of its GDP from 2026, matching Trump's target.
NATO and its eight Baltic Sea allies say they are stepping up efforts to deter 'any attempts at sabotage' in the wake of a series of incidents that have damaged key undersea power and telecommunications cables.
VILNIUS – Lithuania will provide ships and helicopters for NATO's enhanced patrols to protect critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, President Gitanas Nauseda said on Tuesday.
The move marks yet another step in the systematic military encircling of Russia by the US-led military alliance, which continues to back the far-right Ukrainian regime in a war aimed at inflicting a strategic defeat on Moscow and subjugating its territory to semi-colonial status.
A Ryanair plane about to land at Vilnius airport was diverted to Warsaw in Poland on Thursday because of GPS interference, Lithuania's air navigation authority said on Friday.
Solovyov proposed a land corridor through NATO countries, likening it to Trump's call to acquire Greenland for U.S. security.
VILNIUS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Lithuanian Navy has deployed two ships to NATO's critical infrastructure protection operation in the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Armed Forces announced on Wednesday.
NATO is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region after a string of incidents that have heightened concerns about possible Russian activities, the alliance’s leader said.