- State affiliation · Lithuania
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Lithuania.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
A manoeuvre brigade. Its statute of 8 April 2026 states in terms that the brigade is a formation of the First Division subordinate to the division’s commander, and gives its seat at Rukla in Jonava district — the garrison NATO publishes for the German-framework multinational battlegroup.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 3 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Seated at Rukla in Jonava district, the garrison NATO publishes for the German-framework battlegroup and the German-led brigade.
- Notable history
- The brigade is the older of Lithuania’s two authored manoeuvre formations and the one the principal-structure law has always named first. Its statute was re-issued on 8 April 2026 as the first of the year’s divisional statutes, stating in terms that it is a formation of the First Division subordinate to the division commander; the Seimas’s June 2025 amendment places a tank battalion in it, which is the formation’s published direction of change.
- Strengths
- A statute that names its parent in one sentence, and a garrison shared with the allied presence NATO describes as permanent: the national and German brigades at Rukla are the two formations whose relationship defines the Lithuanian ground in this module.
- Limitations
- The statute establishes seat and subordination and nothing else; the brigade’s strength, readiness, holdings and its working relationship to the German-led brigade are not published in any instrument this project has read.
Sensitivity: Public · structural Confidence: High Sources: Republic of Lithuania legal-acts register (Teisės aktų registras)↗ · Official government statements · NATO official texts and summit declarations↗ Methodology Corrections
Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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