Someone placed funeral wreaths near defense companies in Lithuania and Czechia
The head of a Lithuanian defense company called it “ordinary intimidation” by Russians.
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A gasoline and polystyrene mix—police call it napalm—was meant for a Ukrainian drone plant in Slovakia
Investigators say the three men charged were hired to set the fire, and about 70 employees could have been inside the hall when it went up.
Six Nordic-Baltic leaders came to Kyiv. Norway put a $9 billion figure on 2027 support
The visitors joined Ukraine's State Flag Day events ahead of Independence Day, alongside bilateral and multilateral talks with the Ukrainian president.
Poland and the Baltics risk Russian sabotage for backing Ukraine, Bloomberg says
The CIA warned regional governments as Russia weighed sabotage and false flags against Ukraine’s supporters, officials told Bloomberg.
Tree lines out, swamps in—Lithuania rethinks how to stop Russian armor at the border
Restored wetlands are meant to make some ground simply impassable to heavy military vehicles within a few years.
The wreckage Russia collects from Ukrainian drone strikes may have a second life—aimed at NATO, Lithuania warns
Military intelligence gathered data showing Moscow may use captured drone parts for strikes on critical infrastructure in the region, aiming to obscure responsibility and shift blame to Kyiv.
47 sites destroyed, 1,943 damaged: Russia’s toll on Ukrainian heritage keeps climbing
Ukraine's culture ministry counts close to 2,000 heritage sites hit since 2022, with 90 more added in just the last month.
Lithuania moves to produce Ukrainian drones locally under bilateral defense pact
The project will manufacture Ukrainian-designed drones in Lithuania using transferred technology, expanding Ukraine's production capacity abroad while strengthening Europe's defense industry.
Two Russian missiles landed 5 and 150 meters from Lithuania’s embassy in Kyiv. Its FM says strike could have been deliberate
Lithuania's foreign minister said Russia may have deliberately targeted diplomatic missions in Kyiv, noting no military sites stand near its damaged embassy.
The Belarusian tunnel to the EU was almost done. Then Lithuania drilled a hole in exactly the wrong place—for the diggers
Polish tunnel-detection equipment narrowed down the location, and a single bore confirmed a passage running from Belarusian soil.
Lithuania proposes to implement special test for Russian and Belarusian artists and academics who enter state. Those who don’t pass will be banned
Lithuania's Foreign Ministry proposed barring Russian and Belarusian cultural, scientific, and sports figures who performed in occupied Ukraine or backed the war from entering the country.
Poland promised a 700-kilometer shield against Russia—two years on, satellites show four short fortified zones
Warsaw has spent since October 2024 on the project, yet only about 10 kilometers of actual linear fortifications have gone up. The situation in the Baltic States is even worse, a French analyst says.
A nationwide bomb-shelter overhaul is underway in Belarus as Moscow pushes Minsk toward its war against Ukraine
Belpol documented shelter modernization at government offices, telecom sites, factories, utilities, and the National Bank, framing it as another stage of Minsk's war readiness.
Latvia logs 111 straight days of migrants pushed across from Belarus—and blames its support for Ukraine
Lithuania and Poland together absorbed barely a tenth of the roughly 9,100 attempts recorded across the bloc's Belarus frontier since January.
NATO jets over the Baltics get authority to shoot down “objects that pose a threat”
Lithuania's president announced the change, saying the security environment around the three states is no longer peaceful.
Russia claims “verified data” that Latvia opens air corridors for Ukrainian drones—shows none of it
The accusation from a deputy foreign minister landed hours after Ukrainian drones set fires at a major oil terminal in St. Petersburg.
Russia shuts seven rail crossings on its NATO borders. It won’t say why
Move comes weeks after Moscow doubled freight tariffs to the same neighbors
Lithuanian court: the roadside attack on a Ukraine-shirt cyclist was hate, not chance
Judges treated the motive, hostility toward people who support Ukraine, as an aggravating circumstance in sentencing the 1987-born man.
Lithuania faces first US troop gap since 2020 as Pentagon reviews European posture
Two battalions of the 1st Cavalry Division withdrew on schedule; their successors' arrival date, size, and capabilities remain unannounced, Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas said.
France joins European chorus condemning Russian overnight strikes that killed 18 across Ukraine
Foreign ministries in Paris, Vilnius, Tallinn, and Chișinău urged tougher pressure on Moscow after the missile and drone barrage on Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv.