Reuters, Vilnius, March 27 On Thursday, rescuers in Lithuania dug into a peat bog in a military training area to retrieve the vehicle belonging to four American troops who had been missing.
For two days. U.S. forces have been rotating at the Pabrade training field near the Belarusian border since 2019. The soldiers on the M88 Hercules armored recovery truck were exercising there.
After inspecting the area, Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene informed reporters on Thursday morning that their car was found on Wednesday more than five meters below.
The surface and that enough water had been drained from the marsh to start excavating for it. Dozens of trucks carrying hundreds of Lithuanian and American troops were working.
At the spot, searching the surrounding woods for the soldiers. “To us, their soldiers are like our soldiers,” Raimundas Vaiksnoras, the leader of the army, said.
To aid with the hunt, Poland is deploying hundreds of soldiers, scuba divers, and equipment to Lithuania. On Thursday, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, the minister of defense, posted on X.
