{"id":998,"date":"2025-01-13T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/lithuania-to-deliver-4500-drones-to-ukraine-this-week\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:04:22","slug":"lithuania-to-deliver-4500-drones-to-ukraine-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/lithuania-to-deliver-4500-drones-to-ukraine-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania to deliver 4,500 drones to Ukraine this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/GhHR1TmXYAAtcJo.jpeg\" alt=\"Lithuania to deliver 4,500 drones to Ukraine this week\"><\/p>\n<p>Lithuania is providing Ukraine with 4,500 drones worth 5 million euros ($5.1 million) in the coming days, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene announced on Jan. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Drones have proven crucial for both sides of <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/russia\/\">Russia<\/a>&#8216;s full-scale war against <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a>. Kyiv employs unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) of various types for reconnaissance and attack roles at the front lines and for long-range strikes in the Russian rear.<\/p>\n<p>Sakaliene&#8217;s statement came shortly after the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/lithuania\/\">Lithuanian<\/a> broadcaster LRT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/ua\/novini\/1263\/2457987\/tisiachi-litovs-kikh-droniv-priznachenikh-dlia-ukrayini-zastriagli-na-skladakh-khto-vinen\">reported<\/a> that thousands of drones, which were to be delivered to Ukraine several months ago, are still in Lithuanian warehouses as their delivery is delayed by bureaucratic obstacles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am proud to share that Lithuania is sending 4,500 drones worth 5 million euros to Ukraine this week.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, during the last Government meeting, we approved a new faster procedure for transferring state assets. These changes will significantly reduce the time required for\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/332p7A4Q6D\">pic.twitter.com\/332p7A4Q6D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dovil\u0117 \u0160akalien\u0117 (@DSakaliene) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DSakaliene\/status\/1878513252390547889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The previous Lithuanian government pledged in August that 5,000 Lithuanian-made drones would be delivered to Ukraine by fall. Separately, Vilnius also pledged to help <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ministry-lithuania-to-fund-production-of-ukrainian-long-range-drones\/\">fund the production<\/a> of Ukrainian long-range drones, focusing on Ukraine&#8217;s new Palianytsia missile-like drones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, during the last government meeting, we approved a new faster procedure for transferring state assets,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DSakaliene\/status\/1878513252390547889\">Sakaliene<\/a> said, explaining that the changes &#8220;will significantly reduce the time required for procedures, ensuring that aid reaches Ukraine faster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania has been one of the staunchest supporters of Ukraine during the full-scale invasion, pledging to provide 0.25% of its GDP in military aid to Ukraine on a yearly basis. The Baltic country has supplied 840 million euros ($860 million) in security assistance to Ukraine as of October 2024, making it one of the leading donors in terms of GDP shares, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifw-kiel.de\/topics\/war-against-ukraine\/ukraine-support-tracker\/\">Kiel Institute for the World Economy<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-secures-over-150-million-for-defense-industry\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">Ukraine secures over $156 million for defense industry from European allies, defense minister says<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">The funds will support the production of long-range drones, missiles, and artillery, which are critical to Ukraine\u2019s defense strategy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"Lithuania to deliver 4,500 drones to Ukraine this week\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Tim Zadorozhnyy<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/MNM_2451.jpg\" alt=\"Lithuania to deliver 4,500 drones to Ukraine this week\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/lithuania-to-deliver-4-500-drones-to-ukraine-this-week\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania is providing Ukraine with 4,500 drones worth 5 million euros ($5.1 million) in the coming days, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene announced on Jan. 12. Drones have proven crucial for both sides of Russia&#8216;s full-scale war against Ukraine. Kyiv employs unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) of various types for reconnaissance and attack roles at the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/lithuania-to-deliver-4500-drones-to-ukraine-this-week\/\"> [&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152,1],"tags":[1748,1747,1215,735,419,123,66,1223],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kyivindependent","category-news","tag-1748","tag-deliver","tag-drones","tag-lithuania","tag-this","tag-to","tag-ukraine","tag-week"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lithuania to deliver 4,500 drones to Ukraine this week - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/lithuania-to-deliver-4500-drones-to-ukraine-this-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lithuania to deliver 4,500 drones to Ukraine this week - News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lithuania is providing Ukraine with 4,500 drones worth 5 million euros ($5.1 million) in the coming days, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene announced on Jan. 12. 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