The planned flight that would bring Lithuanian citizens stuck in Israel home has been delayed once again on Tuesday, according to Head of the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) Vilmantas Vitkauskas. Earlier reports said the plane was supposed to reach Vilnius Airport at 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday.

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On 9-10 October, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis is visiting Oman’s Sultanate, where he attends a meeting of the 27th session of the EU-GCC Joint Ministerial Council to discuss significant security challenges, reports the MFA.

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Around 14 seats are left on the flight from Tel Aviv to Vilnius, says the CEO of Skyllence, company organising the flight. The plane will land in Vilnius later than planned due to delays, she said.

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President Gitanas Nausėda condemns indiscriminate attacks by Hamas against Israel and urges to stop this senseless violence, the president’s press service said Sunday.

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Asta Skaisgirytė, chief foreign affairs adviser to President Gitanas Nausėda, fears that Hamas terrorist group’s attack against Israel may draw away the Western community’s attention from the war in Ukraine. She nonetheless notes that, judging from the statements of Western leaders, support for Kyiv will not decrease and support for Israel will be provided simultaneously.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises Lithuanians to avoid non-essential travel to Israel after Hamas invaded the country from Gaza and killed hundreds of people.

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Saulius Skvernelis, chairman of the Union of Democrats For Lithuania, says the party could nominate Giedrimas Jeglinskas, former NATO assistant secretary general, as its candidate for president in the 2024 election.

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A parliamentary ad hoc commission said on Friday it had found legal grounds to impeach MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis over his antisemitic statements.

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On Thursday, 5 October, the largest in the Baltic States military equipment repair workshop Vilkas (Wolf) was opened in Rukla, central Lithuania.

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Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says that next year’s US presidential elections may shift the focus of NATO’s largest member state away from support for Ukraine to a more inward direction, something which can continue after those elections, depending on the result, reports ERR.

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On 5 October, the winners of the European Green Cities 2025 Awards were announced in Tallinn, Estonia, this year’s European Green Capital. Vilnius (Lithuania) will be the 2025 European Green Capital, and the title of European Green Leaf 2025 for smaller cities went to Viladecans (Spain) and Treviso (Italy), the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment announced in a press release.

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President Gitanas Nausėda participates in a meeting of the European Political Community in Granada, Spain. On Thursday, the leaders of the European Union and partner countries discussed issues of security, strengthening resilience to global threats, and effective multilateralism, said the president’s press service.

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Antanas Kandrotas, who goes by the alias Celofanas (Cellophane), a well-known participant of anti-LGBT protests, has announced that he will run for president in upcoming elections.

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Highest state officials on Thursday congratulated teachers across the country on World Teachers’ Day.

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Minister of Finance Gintarė Skaistė presented the 2024 draft budget at a sitting of the Government on Thursday.

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The Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) has decided to look into the military chief’s actions closer after the media reported he is using state allowance to rent a flat from his son.

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Ambassador to the United Kingdom Eitvydas Bajarūnas denies accusations of mobbing and abuse of office and says he had not been informed about the complaints against him until this week.

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Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has decided to take part in the primaries of the ruling Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian democrats (TS-LKD) for the party’s nomination to the 2024 presidential election.

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Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė has invited Japan’s innovative businesses to cooperate with Lithuanian companies in engineering and information technologies, the ministry reports.

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Lithuania’s Chief of Defence General Valdemaras Rupšys is renting a flat from his son in Vilnius for the so-called accommodation allowance of EUR 455, the news website 15min reported on Tuesday.

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