Active movement of military equipment will take place in Lithuania from Friday, the army informs.
As indicated in the distributed announcement, they will be redeployed to Lithuania from Friday soldiers and military equipment units that will participate in joint field tactics exercises with Poland and international ones NATO in Exercise Steadfast Defender 24.
"The Polish-Lithuanian border has just been crossed first JAV military equipment column of the army's 2nd Cavalry Regiment. The Americans together with our soldiers will participate in the exercise "Saber Strike" in Pabrade. This is part of the intensive military exercises that will take place this spring on the territory of Lithuania", he informs Lithuanian army.
April 19-21 the movement of German Bundeswehr 2nd Division soldiers and equipment to the territory of Lithuania is taking place, in preparation for the "Grand Quadriga 2024" exercise. The first soldiers will arrive in Lithuania on April 19. by air In the meantime, the military equipment to the place of the exercise Gen. will arrive at the Silvestro Žukauskas polygon from the Kaunas intermodal terminal, having previously arrived there by rail via the Mockava and Šeštokai railway lines the station. More than 2 personnel will come to Lithuania for the exercises, which are focused on the redeployment of 3 divisions from the central European region to the eastern region. German soldiers and 200 pieces of military equipment, including Leopard tanks, Puma and Boxer infantry fighting vehicles.
April 21-26 joint field tactics exercises of Lithuania and Poland will take place with the aviation element "Brave Griffin 24/II", in which allies from the USA and Portugal will also participate. Soldiers of the "Žemaitija" infantry brigade of Lithuanian Grand Etemon Jonas Chodkevičius and the rotational forces of the Portuguese army are currently conducting a tactical march from their permanent deployment locations in the Žemaitija region towards the so-called "Suwalki Corridor", where on April 20 will join forces with the US forces stationed in Poland and Lithuania, and will train according to the bilateral "Orsha Plan" of Lithuania and Poland.
In April-June, the Lithuanian army will conduct one of the largest and most intensive cycles of military training exercises, in which over 20 thousand Lithuanian and allied soldiers and thousands of units of military equipment will participate. The purpose of all the exercises is to test the NATO regional defense plans approved at the Vilnius Summit, ensuring the rapid redeployment of forces from one country to another and to send a clear deterrent message to the enemy about the strong determination and commitment of NATO members to collective defense.
