Germany to announce plan to deploy Bundeswehr brigade in Lithuania

Berlin will announce its plan to transfer and deploy a Bundeswehr brigade in Lithuania next week, Minister of Defense of the Baltic Republic Arvydas Anusauskas said, Report informs.

“Next week there will be a meeting with representatives of Germany and the publication of details of the German side’s plan will begin,” he said.

Vilnius will announce its part of the plan in a few months, the minister noted. “The part of the detailed plan that concerns our country will be prepared in a couple of months,” he said.

As German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in an interview with Estonian state television and radio ERR, Germany intends to send a brigade of 4,000 military personnel to Lithuania, which could be formed by the end of next year.