Four US Soldiers Go Missing Near Belarus Border in Lithuania (2)

Four US soldiers and a vehicle went missing in eastern Lithuania, where authorities have been carrying out a search-and-rescue operation since Tuesday.

The Baltic nation’s armed forces said no deaths had been confirmed as the rescue effort continued. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had earlier signaled that the service members had died, but a spokesperson for the alliance said he was referring to news reports and apologized for any confusion.

Rutte “was not confirming the fate of the missing, which is still unknown,” the spokesperson, Allison Hart, wrote in a post on the X social media platform.

“At the moment, ...