Bodies of three US soldiers

The bodies of three American soldiers in a peat swamp in Lithuania, where they disappeared six days ago while participating in military drills, confirmed the US Army. UU.

Rescue teams are still looking for a room soldier near the city of Pabradė.

“The soldiers that we have lost in this tragedy were not just soldiers, but were part of our family … but the search is not finished until everyone is at home,” said the biggest Christopher Norrie gene in a statement issued by the US Army. Uu. Europe and Africa.

The complex search and rescue mission has included the Army and Navy of the United States, in addition to the Lithuanian and Polish Armed Forces in an effort that has required “tremendous resources,” according to the statement.

The four soldiers disappeared On the morning of March 25, while performing an exercise in its Hercules M88A2, a large armored vehicle designed to recover damaged tanks and other vehicles of the battlefields.

They were “making a mission to repair and tow an immobilized tactical vehicle” when they disappeared, according to the statement.

The soldiers’ vehicle was found immersed in a swamp near the border with Belarus at the beginning of March 26. Taking it out of the mud was a difficult mission.

The US Marine divers. Uu. They were brought to hook cables to the sunken vehicle, and had to maneuver “through thick layers of mud, clay and sediment with zero visibility,” the statement said.

Those cables connected with two other Hercules M88A2, which also began to slide to the swamp, which led to becoming several excavators.

Other heavy construction teams were brought that include excavators and slice and sludge tables, as well as technical experts and “several hundred tons of gravel and land,” said the US Army. UU.

On Sunday, the soldiers, the military commanders and the Minister of Defense of Lithuania attended a mass that was held in the capital city, Vilna.

“Lithuania cries together with the American nation,” wrote the president of the country, gypsies Nausėda, in X.

“Accept my most sincere condolences, as well as those of the Lithuanian people, for you, the loved ones of those who lost their lives and all the people of the United States of America,” he said, addressing the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

Lithuania, NATO and EU member, is the basis of more than 1,000 US troops parked in rotation.

The identities of the four soldiers, assigned to the 1st Combat team of the armored brigade, the third infantry division, have been retained until their relatives are informed.

They had been deployed in Lithuania as part of the Atlantic Operation Resolution, an response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Its base of operations is Fort Stewart, in the American state of Georgia.

The US Army. And the Lithuanian authorities are investigating the cause of the accident.