Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene and Lithuanian Chief of Defence Raimundas Vaiksnoras visit the site of rescue operation at Pabrade training ground, Lithuania, 26 March 2025.;
Credit: LITHUANIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY/Handout via REUTERS
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Three of the four US Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sunk in a peat bog have been found dead at the site, while the search for the remaining soldier is ongoing, the Lithuanian president said on Monday 31 March 2025.
Lithuania had said earlier on Monday that rescuers had recovered the armoured vehicle of the missing soldiers in a military training area in the Baltic country.
"It is with deep sadness and sorrow that I received the news of the tragic loss of three US soldiers," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda wrote on social media platform X."Lithuania mourns together with the American nation," he said.
Nauseda said the search and rescue operation would continue until the fourth soldier had been found.
The soldiers and their vehicle went missing at the Pabrade training ground near the border with Belarus.
