4 US troopers, who went lacking in Lithuania, have died, says NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte

NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte on Wednesday stated that 4 US troopers who went lacking in Lithuania have died. Rutte, who’s on a visit to Warsaw, stated that his ideas had been with their households and with the US. “The information got here out about 4 American troopers who had been killed in an incident in Lithuania. That is nonetheless early information, so we have no idea the small print. That is actually horrible information, and our ideas are with the households and family members,” Rutte instructed reporters in Warsaw.

Here is what the US navy stated

Earlier, the US navy stated that the US Military troopers had gone lacking at a coaching space exterior of Lithuania’s capital. In keeping with an announcement from US Military Europe and Africa public affairs in Wiesbaden, Germany, the troopers had been conducting scheduled tactical coaching on the time.

Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT reported that 4 US troopers and a car had been reported lacking on Tuesday afternoon throughout an train on the Common Silvestras Zukauskas coaching floor in Pabrade, a city positioned lower than 10 kilometres from the border with Belarus.

What would have occurred to US troopers? 

In keeping with The New York Instances, the troopers had been in a military-issue M88 restoration car after they went lacking. They had been reportedly driving via the coaching space to retrieve one other heavy car, and so they may need pushed off the highway right into a swamp. In keeping with an official, they’re feared to have been trapped inside when the truck submerged, the Impartial reviews. 

The Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are all NATO members and have typically had chilly ties with Russia, a key ally of Belarus, since declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1990.

Relations soured additional over Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has been some of the outspoken supporters of Ukraine in its battle in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces.

(With inputs from AP)