4 American soldiers missing from training area in Lithuania, US military says

Four U.S. Army soldiers went missing from a grooming country successful Lithuania adjacent the borderline with Belarus, and a hunt is underway, the U.S. subject said Wednesday.

The soldiers were conducting scheduled tactical grooming adjacent Pabradė, a municipality northbound of the superior Vilnius, erstwhile they went missing, U.S. Army Europe and Africa nationalist affairs successful Wiesbaden, Germany, said successful a statement. 

It was unclear erstwhile the soldiers, each from the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, went missing.

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Eurocopters Tiger of the German Army instrumentality portion successful Lithuanian-German subject exercises astatine a grooming scope successful Pabrade, northbound of the superior Vilnius, Lithuania, connected May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Further updates astir the hunt for the missing soldiers would beryllium provided arsenic accusation becomes available, the U.S. subject said.

Four U.S. soldiers and 1 tracked conveyance were missing, according to Lithuania's equipped forces, which said successful a connection obtained by Reuters that they were informed astir the missing soldiers connected Tuesday.

"A imaginable determination of the incidental has been identified and a hunt and rescue cognition is underway," the connection said.

The grooming crushed successful Pabradė is located little than 6 miles from the borderline with Belarus.

"I would similar to personally convey the Lithuanian Armed Forces and archetypal responders who rapidly came to our assistance successful our hunt operations," Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza, the V Corps commanding general, said successful a written statement. "It’s this benignant of teamwork and enactment that exemplifies the value of our concern and our humanity careless of what flags we deterioration connected our shoulders."

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Lithuania, a subordinate of NATO, has often had tense relations with Russia, a cardinal state of Belarus, since declaring independency from the Soviet Union successful 1990. Latvia and Estonia, the different Baltic countries that broke distant from the Soviet Union, person had likewise chilly ties with Russia.

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Relations soured further over Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful 2022, and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has been 1 of the astir outspoken supporters of Ukraine successful its combat against Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.