WARSAW, Poland — Amid a surge in defense spending across Eastern Europe, Lithuania is advancing plans to purchase Leopard 2A8 tanks and CV90 infantry fighting vehicles while making efforts to ...

The likely accidental deaths of four Americans in the Baltic state will not by themselves stop plans for redeployment. And they shouldn’t.

Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment abroad since World War II.

Berlin and Vilnius agreed to a roadmap action plan that called for the stationing of thousands of foreign troops in Lithuania. Now, Germany plans to station 105 main battle tanks (MBTs) in Lithuania.

says Lithuania's defence minister Europe must remove borrowing limits for defence spending or face the prospect of war with Russia, Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene told Reuters on ...

Baltic states like Lithuania have stormed ahead with alliance-wide efforts to pull up defense spending, albeit with deepening concerns over whether the tens of thousands of U.S. military personnel ...

Lithuania, a NATO and EU member, which borders both its former overlord Russia and Moscow's close ally Belarus, has committed to spending 5.5% of its gross domestic product next year on defence ...

The narrow corridor between Lithuania and Belarus ... This new strategy aims to strengthen defense capabilities, increase military spending to meet NATO targets—which Germany achieved for ...

The Baltic states – Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia – have now ... resulting in the U.S. temporarily withdrawing military spending and battlefield intelligence sharing with Kyiv.

Poland and the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said last ... 3 billion euros ($3.24 billion) to defense, raising the level of military spending from 2.41% in 2024 to 3% of ...