The divers were able to attach the steel line to Hercules' armored car in the swamp. “This is simply a large step forward”, commented the Lithuanian general. 4 American soldiers moved on the vehicle. The military went missing on Tuesday at the camp in Podbrod. They've been searching always since.
"This is simply a large step forward" – so the advancement of divers in 5 days search and rescue action Assessed by the commander of the Lithuanian army General Raimundas Vaiksznoras. He adds at the same time that ‘one line is not enough’.
"Two are needed, but the first line means we are no longer standing still," Vaiksznoras wrote on Facebook.
Rope attachment took the divers about five hours working in the dark.
Lithuania: Dramatic rescue. They're looking for missing American soldiers.
According to fresh estimates, sunk Hercules armored car is about 4 metres below the water surface and under about a two-meter mud layer.
– Hooking another rope It will take at least the same time as the first and possibly even more," said the head of the Defence Staff of Remigijus Baltrenas.
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A mass was celebrated in Vilnius Cathedral on Sunday for missing soldiers and their loved ones, as well as soldiers and rescuers. Liturgy was presided over by Vilnius metropolitan Archbishop Gintaras Grusus.
American soldiers are missing in Lithuania. Poland started to help
Four American soldiers Missing on Tuesday during exercise on Polygon in Podbrod, about 15-20 km from the Lithuanian border with Belarus.
Lithuanian and abroad military, as well as helicopters of the Air Force and the State Border defender of Lithuania, were directed to search and rescue action.
Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the MON Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish informed on Thursday that Poland ‘in urgent mode’ send a task force to Lithuania in line Several twelve soldiers with dense equipment and divers. They're expected to aid find the missing soldiers and extract their combat car.
The work is carried out in swampy terrain.
At the camp in Podbrodzi (lit. Pabrade) stationed about A 1000 American soldiers, forming 2 battalions. They have been present there since 2019 on rotation rules, mainly as part of armored brigades.
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