{"id":15527,"date":"2025-03-26T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/4-u-s-army-soldiers-killed-during-exercise-in-lithuania-near-border-with-belarus-nato-chief-says\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:04:08","slug":"4-u-s-army-soldiers-killed-during-exercise-in-lithuania-near-border-with-belarus-nato-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/4-u-s-army-soldiers-killed-during-exercise-in-lithuania-near-border-with-belarus-nato-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"4 U.S. Army soldiers killed during exercise in Lithuania near border with Belarus, NATO chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>Four U.S. Army soldiers were killed during a training exercise in Lithuania, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Wednesday, speaking with reporters in Poland. The U.S. embassy in Vilnius said earlier in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USEmbVilnius\/status\/1904894430709965243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a statement<\/a>\u00a0posted on social media that the four soldiers had gone missing during training, and it thanked the Baltic nation&#8217;s military and police for helping American forces search for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. official would say only that the four soldiers were involved in a training accident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The news came out about four American soldiers who were killed in an incident in Lithuania,&#8221; Rutte told reporters in Warsaw. &#8220;This is still early news so we do not know the details. This is really terrible news and our thoughts are with the families and loved ones.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. embassy said in its social media post that the troops went missing from a training area near Pabrade, near Lithuania&#8217;s far eastern border with Belarus, a nation <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/belarus-russia-nuclear-weapons-war-lukashenko-putin-hiroshima-nagasaki\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">closely allied with Russia<\/a><\/span>. 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