The Ministry of National Defence joined in the initiative of the President of the Republic of Lithuania: in the evening of March 31 the MoD building was lit with colours of the flag of Italy to express solidarity with the country experiencing the highest loss of life to the coronavirus in Europe, numbering over 11,000.

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On March 29 an additional team of Croatian and German military medics with specialised equipment arrived from Croatia to Lithuania by a special flight to take care of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battle Group personnel who had been diagnosed with COVID-19.

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On March 23–29, 2020, NATO fighter aircraft conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states were scrambled five times to identify and escort military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.

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On 29 March 2004 Lithuania joined the ranks of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO. Security environment changed significantly over the years, and the Alliance along with it, while Lithuania acquired a position of a full-fledged and reliable ally. Last year we and other allies celebrated the 70th anniversary of NATO.

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North Macedonia has become a new member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. On March 27 the country was officially called a full-fledged ally of the newly 30-member Alliance after depositing its entering documents at the U.S. Department of State in Washington.

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On March 24 several more COVID-19 cases have been identified in the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battle Group (NATO eFP BG) in Rukla. The infected allied soldiers are taken care of by military medical personnel in ad hoc separated quarters in the military territory. They were placed in the premises immediately, for testing for the coronavirus.

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