We are missing the American soldiers’ vehicle that was recovered from the Lithuania swamp, but there is no word to them

Vilnnis, Lithuania Lithuanon officials said on Monday that an American armored vehicle lost in Lithuania had been retrieved from a swamp after a six -day search, but there is no information about the fate of the four American soldiers who were inside.

“The armored vehicle was pulled into the beach at 4:40 am, the process was complete, and the continuation of the Litoanian military police and the American investigators in their work,” Defense Minister Dofilian said on Monday morning in a Facebook post.

The soldiers were a training exercise at GM She mentioned that she was missing in the early hours of Tuesday morningThe US military said.

“In order for investigators to have more details, we need to remain calm and focus, and take into account the sensitivity of the situation and the fears of the soldiers’ families,” posted šakalienė on Facebook.

She explained to reporters that the first information about the fate of the soldiers will be delivered by the US military.

The soldiers, all of them from the first brigade, were the third infantry division, they were training tactical when they lost.

Hundreds of soldiers, soldiers, and the United States of America participated in research through thick forests and swamps around Babradi, which is located 6 miles west of the border with Belarus. The M88 armored Hercules vehicle was discovered on Wednesday in 15 feet of water.

A The recovery process is wide It started but “water, thick clay and soft earth around the site Complex recovery efforts The army said that the specialized water drainage equipment from the side and the installation of the land “in order to pull the car on the beach 70 tons.

“The large mortar pump, the cranes, more than 30 tons of gravel, and the subject experts from the American Army Engineers Corps are only some of the assets that arrived at the site to help reach the M88,” the US Army and Africa Public Affairs Office said in a statement on Friday.

“This will be a long and difficult operation … but we are completely committed to bringing our soldiers home,” said Cortis Taylor, commander -in -chief of the first armored category in a statement on Friday.

Lithuania, a member of NATO and a member of the European Union, hosts more than 1,000 American soldiers centered on the basis of rotation.