Lithuania

President’s main tasks in the NATO-member state are foreign and defense policy, as supreme commander of the armed forces.

Belarus accuses NATO of provocations that could trigger nucelar apocalypse, and of allegedly launching ‘combat drone’ strikes against Minsk.

A Chinese container ship remains the prime suspect in causing damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between NATO members.

NATO member Lithuania hailed “historic event” as Germany began deploying troops to the Baltic, the first time since World War II.

West no longer post-Cold War and is in a new “pre-war” era with limited time left to prepare for and deter future conflicts, the UK says.

Leaked German military documents have warned of a full-blown war between Russia and NATO with hundreds of thousands of troops deployed.

Zelensky has arrived in Latvia, the final stop on his Baltic mini-tour as he attempts to drum up further support and missiles.

Finland and Estonia said the undersea Balticconnector gas pipeline has been temporarily taken out of service due to a suspected leak.

Finland joined the three Baltic countries in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory.

Poland and the Baltic states said they will close their borders with Belarus in the event of a military incidents or a migrant push by Minsk.

Polish and Lithuanian leaders held urgent meeting in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and Russia.

Lithuania has begun revoking residence permits of Russians deemed to have “disloyal views” such as who is the rightful owner of Crimea.

NATO is “more united than ever”, Ukraine is on a path to membership, and is now treated as an equal to NATO, it was said in Vilnius.

President Joe Biden shunned fellow world leaders Tuesday night and skipped a NATO dinner, with the White House citing the president’s workload for retiring early to his hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be unhappy with reports that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit currently underway in Vilnius, Lithuania will culminate with an offer of increased support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion, but not an offer of full membership in NATO.

NATO’s annual summit in kicked off with new pledges of military support, with new missiles and tanks heading east from Germany and France.

Turkey has officially backed the NATO membership bid of Sweden in exchange for the Nordic nation’s support of Islamic country joining the EU.

China’s state-run Global Times struggled to contain its editorial blood pressure on Sunday as it reported the leaders of South Korea and Japan will attend this week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the second year in a row.

U.S. President Joe Biden flew into the United Kingdom on Sunday night, a stop-off on his way to the NATO summit in Lithuania tomorrow.

Karolis Chvedukas, a Lithuanian soccer star who played for Marijampolė City, died “unexpectedly” at the young age of 32, a report says.

The three Baltic states condemned comments by China’s envoy to France, who suggested that former Soviet republics aren’t sovereign nations.

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason after declaring herself president.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – In a dusty workshop in northern Lithuania, a dozen men are transforming hundreds of wheel rims into potbelly stoves to warm Ukrainians huddled in trenches and bomb shelters. As the sparks subside, one welder marks the countertop: 36 made that day. Hours later, they’ve reached 60.

VALAKELIAI, Lithuania (AP) – A powerful gas pipeline explosion that prompted the evacuation of a village in northern Lithuania was most likely caused by a technical malfunction, the head of the country’s natural gas transmission system said Saturday.

An explosion hit a pipeline connecting Latvia and Lithuania on Friday afternoon, sparking an evacuation of the nearby village.

Lithuania has completed a fence along the border with Belarus and a surveillance system to monitor for illegals.

For Ukrainian and Russian military planners, the clock is ticking, with the approach of winter expected to make fighting more complicated.

The Prime Minister of Estonia has warned that her country faces blackouts if Russia disconnects the three Baltic states — all NATO and EU members — from its grid amid the ongoing Russo-Western sanctions war. 

The EU’s newly appointed ambassador to Beijing said that China should “rule the world,” and called for “reunification” with Taiwan.

Russia threatened action after Lithuania began to block sanctioned goods from travelling into the exclave of Kaliningrad.

An international fleet of naval warships could break the Russian blockade of Ukraine which is preventing the export of huge amounts of food.

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy says there is no guarantee that the 27-nation bloc will be able to finalise a new set of sanctions against Russia, with a small group of countries led by Hungary opposing a full oil embargo.

Lithuania’s parliament has successfully cancelled part of the alphabet, passing a law that will see the symbolic use of the letters ‘Z’ and ‘V’ banned over their links with Russia.

As a number of EU leaders – including the President of Poland – visit Ukraine, Germany has been left licking its wounds after apparently being told that their head of state is ‘not wanted’ in the country.

European politicians floated an embargo on Russian gas after accusing Moscow of being behind an alleged massacre of civilians.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Lithuania on Monday announced that it will expel Russia’s ambassador and recall its envoy in Moscow in reaction to increasing signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine.