Missing US soldiers in Lithuania killed: NATO chief
Mar 26, 2025
Four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters during a trip to Warsaw, Rutte said he had received word of the deaths of the four American troops.
“This is still early news so we do n
ot know the details. This is really terrible news and our thoughts are with the families and loved ones,” Rutte said, as reported by The Associated Press.
The news comes only hours after it was initially reported the four American soldiers were missing.
U.S. Army Europe and Africa said that the missing troops were part of the Army’s 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and were in a training area close to the Lithuanian city of Pabradė, a town less than 6 miles west of the border with Belarus.
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