Today, on December 17, Latvia announced a partial inspection of the combat readiness of the National Armed Forces units, ...

Latvia's Armed Forces on Dec. 17 announced snap military exercises across the country "to test and improve procedures and units' combat readiness." While the Latvian Defense Ministry said that the ...

Latvia will transfer over 1,000 "combat drones of various types" to Ukraine through the international drone coalition, the ...

Royal Marines took part in two military exercises in Latvia in 2018 and 2019, some involving NATO allies, at an abandoned former Soviet town called Skrunda-1 (pictured inside one of the buildings ...

Born and raised in Latvia, he has spent more than half his life in his country's military. His mother is also a Russian-speaker from Latvia, and his father is from eastern Ukraine. If Maj Deryugin ...

The Latvian Defense Ministry said Russian military aircraft and vessels approached the republic’s borders in 2015 more than 270 times, in 2014 - more than 250 times RIGA, July 24. /TASS/.

The bulk of next year's Latvian defense budget, or 42 percent, will be used for the development of military capabilities. About 26 percent of the budget will cover personnel expenditure and about 26 ...

Ten years ago in 2014, Baltic defense was paltry. The defense budgets of the three Baltic states, but especially Latvia and ...

The Canadian military has raised concerns that some of the key equipment it has sent to Latvia will face maintenance problems as there are few facilities available to protect the systems from the ...

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches a grim three-year anniversary, 180 members of the Canadian Armed Forces are leaving Edmonton this week and heading to Latvia as part of an ongoing NATO ...

The first large-scale NATO military exercise in Latvia wrapped up Thursday after a two-week multinational training mission in the regions of Vidzeme and Zemgale. At the military base near the capital ...

As part of the combat readiness check, military equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Latvia will be moved to different places in the country to perform their assigned tasks. Such an ...