4 US military soldiers were killed during the exercise in Lithuania near the border with Belarus, the NATO president says

NATO Secretary -General Mark Roti said on Wednesday with correspondents in Poland that four American army soldiers were killed during a training exercise in Lithuania. The American embassy said at the Felnis earlier statement On social media, the four soldiers had disappeared during the training, and thanked the army and police in the Baltic state for helping the American forces search for them.

Only a US official says that the four soldiers were involved in a training accident.

“The news came out about four American soldiers who were killed in an accident in Lithuania,” Roti told reporters in Warsaw. “This is still early, so we don’t know the details. This is really terrible news and our ideas with families and loved ones.”

The American embassy in her position on social media said that the forces were lost from a training zone near Babraid, near the Far East border in Lithuania with Belarus, which is a nation Closely with Russia. The embassy did not say when the soldiers lost.

“The soldiers, all of them from the first brigade, the third pedestrian department, were conducting tactical exercises scheduled at the time of the accident,” the embassy statement said.

Delfi from the Litoine news port said that the soldiers had lost with a tracked vehicle, which usually indicates a reservoir or an armored personnel holder.