Lithuania regains the car that carried 4 missing soldiers

Lithuania’s Ministry of Defense said on Monday that it had withdrawn an American military car from a deep and muddy swamp, nearly a week after the loss of American soldiers.

The car was withdrawn from the quagmire on Sunday evening, the Ministry of Defense He said on social media. It did not submit a update to the missing soldiers.

Soldiers It was reported lost on Tuesday After they did not return from the task of training, according to the American army. Their car, Hercules M88, was discovered in a muddy quagmire on Wednesday.

The missing soldiers, from the first brigade, the third infantry department, were training near the border with Belarus, A close ally of Russia And a strong supporter of her war in Ukraine.

The army said the soldiers had been sent at M88 Hercules, a giant armored cloud truck, to extract another army vehicle. They may have been expelled from the road and the swamp, and it seems that the soldiers were trapped at home, according to a US military official in Europe.

To lift the car, the American divers swam in the swamp to connect a cable to the sunken car, the American army He said On social media. The army said that divers had difficulty reaching the car due to the heavy mud, and rescue crews pumping and pumping water from the swamp.

On Sunday, rescue efforts were also hindered by a landslide, and the Duchess of Sakalin, Lithuanian Defense Minister, He said On social media. I described the effort as “Exhausting fighting with the power of deep swamp. “

The American army said that the initial search for soldiers, through thick forests and swamps, included lithosy military helicopters, diving teams, hundreds of American soldiers, vitanon and law enforcement officers.

Belarus and Russia Lithuania, a member of NATO who was part of the Soviet Union, often criticized to host American forces and other allies.

Lithuania and other former Soviet countries in Eastern Europe are cultivated that President Trump will weaken NATO. Their participation in the recovery efforts were offered to find the missing American soldiers what President Gitanas Nazila showed from Lithuania He said it was the value of the allies who behave together. Poland, Lithuania and another member of NATO, also sent military engineers to help.