Bundeswehr in Lithuania: German troopers towards | EUROtoday

LItaly's Defense Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas, who has solely been in workplace because the finish of March, is “excited”. The minister wrote on Platform X that he was happy to have the ability to welcome the primary troopers of the deliberate German brigade to his nation on Monday. The advance get together of 20 folks will arrive at Vilnius airport, accompanied by the Army Inspector General Alfons Mais.

This begins a mission that may develop to round 150 Bundeswehr members in the direction of the tip of the yr. It is scheduled to formally go into service in 2025 and embody round 4,800 troopers and 200 civilian workers in 2027. The mission will due to this fact be one of many largest international operations within the historical past of the Bundeswehr.