(June 25, 2022)
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the Army’s 10th Special Forces Group, which before the war had been training Ukrainian commandos at a base in the country’s west, quietly established a coalition planning cell in Germany to coordinate military assistance to Ukrainian commandos and other Ukrainian troops. The cell has now grown to 20 nations.
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Bundesverteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius hat angekündigt, zusätzliche 4000 Bundeswehrsoldatinnen und -soldaten in das NATO-Partnerland Litauen zu schicken, um die Ostflanke der NATO zu stärken. „Deutschland ist bereit, dauerhaft eine robuste Brigade in Litauen zu stationieren“, sagte Pistorius in Vilnius.
(June 14, 2023)
The hope in the push is that once Ukraine is a full member of the alliance, Russia would not dare to try to topple the government in Kyiv because an attack on one NATO country is considered an attack on them all. Ukrainian membership has become a “consuming debate,” both in Europe and inside the Biden administration, according to one senior U.S. official who is deeply involved in the discussions.
Only Germany has sided fully with Mr. Biden, though some of the other 29 allies have their own quiet doubts about Ukraine’s readiness to fully join the alliance — and the risks that NATO nations could get sucked directly into a conflict with Russia in the future.
‚The president and the prime minister will also discuss the joint US-UK leadership on critical emerging technologies as well as our work to strengthen our economic security.‘
Biden will then hold talks with current NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on Monday.
Ukraine is set to top the agenda for their talks which will take place one month out from the summit and will give other NATO countries an inkling of what to expect from Kyiv‘s most powerful western ally.
Rasmussen said: “If Nato cannot agree on a clear path forward for Ukraine, there is a clear possibility that some countries individually might take action. We know that Poland is very engaged in providing concrete assistance to Ukraine. And I wouldn’t exclude the possibility that Poland would engage even stronger in this context on a national basis and be followed by the Baltic states, maybe including the possibility of troops on the ground.
“I think the Poles would seriously consider going in and assemble a coalition of the willing if Ukraine doesn’t get anything in Vilnius.
(June 25, 2022)
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the Army’s 10th Special Forces Group, which before the war had been training Ukrainian commandos at a base in the country’s west, quietly established a coalition planning cell in Germany to coordinate military assistance to Ukrainian commandos and other Ukrainian troops. The cell has now grown to 20 nations.
(June 28th 2022)
The extent of Western material support was perhaps best symbolised by Ukrainian special forces operating in the contested Donbas regions, which the Times highlighted had American flag patches on their equipment and carried new Western-supplied portable surface to air missiles and both Belgian and American assault rifles. Efforts on the ground in Ukraine were supplemented by considerable support provided to Ukrainian personnel in NATO member states themselves, an example being training for Ukrainian commandos in Germany provided by the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group. At Ramstein Air Base in Germany, U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard personnel simultaneously trained the Ukrainian Air Force.
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Officials from the Baltic states blamed Russia and claimed that Poland should invoke NATO’s Article 5 in retaliation. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of “terrorism” and said NATO needed to “act” against this “attack on collective security.”
Joe Biden, speaking at a NATO summit in Madrid today, announced the creation of a new base for the US Fifth Army Corps in Poland – the first permanent American base in the country – along with 3,000 extra soldiers to be sent to Romania and ‚enhanced‘ troop rotations for the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Two more squadrons of F-35 fighters will be deployed to the UK, Biden added, along with additional air defence systems for Germany and Italy, and another two destroyers which will be stationed at Rota Naval Station in Spain, bringing the total to six.
Today it is a city of about a million, an important year-round naval base for the Russian Baltic fleet and for other military facilities. It is of vital strategic importance to Russia, which is why the Kremlin hung on to it when the rest of its empire dissolved in 1991.
(22.06.2022)
Russland droht dem Westen wegen der teilweisen Transitblockade der Exklave Kaliningrad mit Vergeltung. Die Antwort aus Moskau auf das Vorgehen Litauens werde nicht ausschließlich diplomatisch sein, sagte die Sprecherin des Außenministeriums, Maria Sacharowa. Vielmehr werde die Reaktion Russlands „praktisch“ ausfallen, ergänzte sie, ohne das näher auszuführen.
„Für eine EUTM Ukraine. Mehrere Länder (insbesondere Litauen und Polen) wollen sich in Brdo für die Unterstützung der ukrainischen Armee einsetzen,…
He added that the cells‘ activities were coordinated via a Telegram channel dubbed „Self-defence regiments of Belarus“ which had 2,500 subscribers and belonged to a German citizen.
The cells recently tried to detonate a Russian naval communication centre located in the Belarusian town of Vileika, about 100 kilometres northwest of Minsk, according to the Belarusian leader.
Eine Sprecherin des Auswärtigen Amtes hatte am Freitagmittag in Berlin erklärt, sie wolle zu den Vorwürfen, die Lukaschenko »so in den Raum gestellt hat«, nicht Stellung nehmen. Über die mögliche Festnahme deutscher Staatsangehöriger könne sie »an dieser Stelle nichts berichten«.
Der nächste Youtube-Werbefilm der Bundeswehr geht ab 17. Mai an den Start. „Die Mission“ dreht sich um die Vorwärtspräsenz der Bundeswehr in Litauen:
On May 10 Poland’s President Duda was in Romania to co-host a virtual conference of the Bucharest Nine (9) group with Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis, The members of the comparatively new bloc are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia; all former members of the Soviet bloc and of the defunct Warsaw Pact.
Greetings were sent to the meeting by President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Auf dem Truppenübungsplatz Altmark im Gefechtsübungszentrum Heer sollen dann 1.100 Soldaten eine Zertifizierungsübung für eine Nato-Mission in Litauen durchführen. Die Verlegung nach Litauen ist für Anfang 2021 geplant.
A new battalion of US military forces, equipped with tanks and other armored vehicles, is to be deployed to Lithuania in November and will remain there until next June, the country’s defense minister says.
Eines der aktuell prominentesten – und kostspieligsten – Infrastrukturprojekte der Europäischen Union ist die „Rail Baltica“. Dahinter verbirgt sich der Plan, eine Schnellbahntrasse von Tallinn über die baltischen Staaten bis nach Polen zu legen und damit auch an das restliche westeuropäische und nicht zuletzt deutsche Netz anzubinden. Nachdem die ersten Pläne viele Jahre zurückreichen, ist es auffällig, dass gerade in jüngster Zeit wieder Schwung in das Projekt kam: „Die Rail Baltica galt als vorrangiges Bahnprojekt der EU.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun will travel to Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine on Aug. 24-27 to meet senior government leaders to discuss regional issues, the State Department said in a statement on Sunday.
Die Truppen der Nato-Bataillone werden alles sechs Monate ausgetauscht, da die Nato sich in Verträgen mit Russland verpflichtet hatte, auf dem Gebiet der ehemaligen Staaten des Warschauer Paktes keine Truppen dauerhaft zu stationieren.
Auftrag sei, Präsenz zu zeigen und zusammen mit Soldaten aus anderen Nato-Ländern zu üben, erklärte die Bundeswehr.
(19.11.2018)
(08.12.2012)
Composed of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Sweden, the group, dubbed the New Hanseatic League, is starting to have some influence.
Die deutschen Soldaten sind als Teil der Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) der Nato in Litauen stationiert. Zuvor war mitgeteilt worden, dass Deutschland im Januar 14 Schützenpanzer nach Litauen verlegt hätte.
The size of the project will amount to around 90 million euros. The construction of 3 military territories will the first military project based on public and private partnership (PPP).
Das Land, in dem fast ein Drittel der Bevölkerung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung bedroht ist, hat seinen Militärhaushalt mittlerweile auf rund zwei Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts erhöht; es gibt einen wachsenden Teil davon für Einkäufe bei deutschen Waffenschmieden aus.
(30.6.2018) Darunter sollen auch Länder sein, die ihrer Flüchtlingspolitik bisher extrem kritisch gegenüberstanden, wie Tschechien, Ungarn oder Polen. Das geht aus einem Schreiben der Kanzlerin an die Partei- und Fraktionsvorsitzenden der Koalitionspartner SPD und CSU hervor, wie dem ZDF aus Unionskreisen bestätigt wurde.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said both countries had violated the European prohibition of torture.
Litauen und Rumänien haben sich der Komplizenschaft beim berüchtigten CIA-Folterprogramm in Geheimgefängnissen schuldig gemacht. Das hat der EGMR geurteilt.