{"id":243305,"date":"2025-07-06T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243305\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:29:09","slug":"lithuanian-and-german-presidents-discuss-stronger-support-for-ukraine-and-pressure-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243305\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian and German presidents discuss stronger support for Ukraine and pressure on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gitanas Naus\u0117da and Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Photo: Naus\u0117da on X (Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania&#8217;s President Gitanas Naus\u0117da and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier have met to discuss support for Ukraine and pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Naus\u0117da on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GitanasNauseda\/status\/1941877284991901733\" target=\"_blank\">X (Twitter)<\/a>, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2025\/07\/6\/7215317\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Pravda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details<\/strong>: Naus\u0117da said that he and President Steinmeier had discussed the close cooperation between Lithuania and Germany in the field of defence, support for Ukraine, pressure on Russia and strategic investments in military mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote from Naus\u0117da:<\/strong> &#8220;Germany remains a key ally in ensuring security, resilience and peace in Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On Sunday 6 July, Steinmeier, who is currently visiting Vilnius, said that the decision to deploy a German brigade to Lithuania reflects Berlin\u2019s commitment to Lithuania\u2019s security.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On 22 May, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz officially initiated the work of a new German brigade in Lithuania to help protect NATO&#8217;s eastern flank.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gitanas Naus\u0117da and Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Photo: Naus\u0117da on X (Twitter) Lithuania&#8217;s President Gitanas Naus\u0117da and his German counterpart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,1114],"class_list":{"0":"post-243305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-lithuania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114807712387921951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}