After recovering a tank sunk in the mud, the US military confirmed the death of three out of four missing US soldiers in Lithuania. The fate of the fourth soldier initially remained unclear. The search on the military training area in Pabrade on the NATO-East flank not far from the border with Belarus was continued, the European command center of the US Army in Wiesbaden said. The US Army and the Lithuanian authorities have also initiated an investigation into the cause of the accident. Lithuania ”. “We can assure you that we will not rest until we have found the last missing soldier,” she also wrote on the platform X. President Gitanas Nauseda and Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys expressed their sympathy and pronounced their condolences to the members of the soldiers. Soldiers have been missing four US soldiers since last Tuesday. They belonged to an infantry brigade and were no longer found after an exercise in which, according to US information, they carried out a planned tactical training. The Lithuanian military and the police then started a search with the US military for the troops who were traveling with an M88 Hercules Mountain armor. Hundreds of soldiers and rescue workers took part in the operation. This ultimately led to the location of the vehicle in a water in the exercise area, which is crossed by dense forests and swampy terrain. It was only after day -long efforts that the rescue workers managed to recover the tons of heavy military vehicle with the help of special equipment on Monday night. In order to get to the tank, which is almost five meters deep and lowered below the waterline, they had to dry up the swampy area at the point. According to Lithuania, a US battalion is currently stationed in a Pabrade.
Three missing soldiers in Lithuania, according to the US military, found dead
