Lithuania Says to Send 30 RBS Missiles to Ukraine
"To help protect critical infrastructure, we are delivering 30 RBS missiles to Ukraine. This is weaponry Ukraine urgently needs and it will help strengthen its air defense," Robertas Kaunas said Tuesday, following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The visit came on the fourth anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, with Kaunas traveling to Kyiv to participate in a series of high-level multilateral and bilateral engagements. Alongside talks with Zelenskyy, meetings of the Coalition of the Willing and the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) were convened, as well as separate discussions with Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, Lithuania's Defense Ministry confirmed.
At the NB8 gathering, Kaunas pushed for intensified international efforts to counter Russian strikes on civilian energy infrastructure as winter grips the region. He disclosed that Lithuania had already dispatched 90 generators — valued at over €2 million ($2.2 million) — during the January–February 2026 cold snap, with further consignments of diesel generators, transformers, and electric motors in preparation to help restore Ukraine's crippled power grid.
Vilnius also confirmed it would contribute to the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List initiative, under which US-manufactured weapons will be supplied to Kyiv.
Kaunas further announced that a fresh shipment of liquefied natural gas originating from the United States — routed through the Klaipeda LNG terminal — was expected to arrive in Ukraine in the near term.
In bilateral discussions with Fedorov, both parties agreed to deepen industrial ties, committing to advance joint Lithuanian-Ukrainian weapons manufacturing projects to be carried out across both nations.
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