The operation aims at deterring and disrupting pirate attacks to protect shipping and enhance security in the territorial waters of Somalia and the Western Indian Ocean region.
The Lithuanian delegate, Lieutenant (Navy) Darius Mickus, deputy commander of the Zemaitis, a patrol vessel of the Patrol Ship Division, Naval Flotilla, Lithuanian Navy, will be serving in the flagship of Operation Ocean Shield commissioned by the Danish Royal Navy.
This going to be Lithuania's second contribution to an operation of battling piracy off the Somali coast – 20 Lithuanian soldiers were protecting a European Union-led Operation ATALANTA ship delivering humanitarian assistance in the second semester of 2013.
