The soldiers were on a training mission Tuesday when their heavy vehicle sank in a swamp in eastern Lithuania, near the border with Belarus, the Army said.

Officials said the soldiers disappeared during "scheduled tactical training" in an area near Lithuania's border with Belarus, and a search and recovery effort was underway.

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

U.S. and Lithuanian troops and authorities are struggling to drain a swampy area in Lithuania in ongoing efforts to recover four American Army soldiers who went missing three days ago and are warning

Hundreds of troops and emergency workers are racing to find four US soldiers who went missing during a training mission near Lithuania’s border with Belarus, the US Army said Thursday, after their armored vehicle was found submerged in a body of water.

A search and recovery effort is underway for the soldiers, who are all from the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division.

Rescuers in Lithuania were digging on Thursday into a peat bog in a military training area to recover the vehicle of four U.S. soldiers missing for two days.

Four U.S. soldiers went missing during tactical training in Lithuania, not far from its border with Belarus, officials said. The missing Americans were riding in their M88 recovery vehicle, which "was discovered submerged in a body of water in a training area,

NATO has clarified a statement that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made about four U.S soldiers from a Georgia military base who disappeared while training in Lithuania.