KYIV/VILNIUS (Reuters) -Ukraine has handed over a captured Russian soldier accused of torture and illegal detention to Lithuania for trial, in what Kyiv said was the first case of its kind involving ...

For Lithuania, a NATO and EU member bordering Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave and Belarus, the war in Ukraine has not been a ...

Ukraine handed over a Russian prisoner of war to Lithuania for criminal prosecution for war crimes, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said on Oct. 31. This marks the first time since the start of ...

Lithuania formally asked NATO to increase its air defense capabilities to protect European countries. The request comes after a Russian drone carrying explosives entered the country’s airspace last ...

VILNIUS, May 6 (Reuters) - Lithuania launched a military exercise on Wednesday to simulate an attack on its new gas terminal, a move its strongly anti-Moscow president said was intended to show the ...

Male conscription is in place since 2015, when it was reinstated after being ended in 2008, due to concerns about the geopolitical environment in light of the Russo-Ukrainian War. In early 2022, ...

BEIJING — China imposed sanctions on two Lithuanian banks in what it said was retaliation for the European Union including two Chinese financial institutions in its latest round of sanctions against ...

Kyiv transfers Russian suspect to Vilnius for trial Soldier suspected of illegally detaining, torturing POWs, civilians Ukraine says it is first such transfer of its kind during war No immediate ...