Lithuania’s State Defence Council (VGT), which includes the country’s top political and military leaders, has committed to significantly increasing military spending. Over the next five years, the ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania has decided to raise its spending on defense to between 5% and 6% of overall national economic output starting in 2026 due to the threat of Russian aggression in ...

The Baltic states are set to sever ties with Russia's power grid that date back to the 1950s, and instead integrate further ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In an interview with The Associated Press, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has said that any peace ...

Lithuania plans to increase defense ... Trump has threatened to abandon NATO and demanded members of the military alliance more than double the current target for defense expenditure to the ...

Higher defense spending will not be financed by cutting the welfare state but by combining national and EU money, Dovilė ...

Some politicians in Lithuania have objected to the country raising its military expenditures, already among the highest relative to GDP in the 32-member NATO alliance. But Nausėda said Lithuania ...

Nearly 30,000 soldiers and police officers flocked to Rome February 8-9 for the Jubilee of the Armed Forces, the second major ...