Search and recovery efforts are underway for four U.S. soldiers engaged in NATO training exercises who have been missing since Wednesday in a wooded, swampy region of Lithuania.
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Lithuania shares a 400-mile border with Belarus, a close ally of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. On Thursday, Lithuania announced that it had recovered the soldier’s M88 Hercules armored vehicle in a bog, 16 feet underwater. Efforts to find the soldiers continue.
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Early Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the soldiers were dead, which the U.S. immediately denied.
“The search is ongoing,” NATO said in a statement it posted on X. “We regret any confusion about remarks @SecGenNATO delivered on this today. He was referring to emerging news reports & was not confirming the fate of the missing,
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