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Lithuania - Three foreign soldiers missing after exercise in Lithuania

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Event date (UTC)

2025-03-26 12:08:24

Last update (UTC)

2025-03-26 15:49:28

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55.11395

Longitude

26.01818

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Švenčionių rajono savivaldybė, Vilniaus apskritis

Three foreign soldiers and a car disappeared Tuesday evening after an exercise at the Pabradė training ground.According to the Police Department, Vilnius officials were informed at 19:20 that the soldiers went missing after a training exercise at the Pabradė training ground in the District of Švenčionys in eastern Lithuania.The police are clarifying the circumstances of the incident.Major Gintautas Ciunis, a spokesman for the Lithuanian Armed Forces, told BNS that the missing persons are foreigners and did not comment further on the situation: “I can only say that they are foreign soldiers.”The chairman of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defence, Giedrimas Jeglinskas, told LRT RADIO that he was aware of the disappearance, but did not provide any further information.
“There is a request from the military and the forces that were conducting the drills to exercise discretion at this time and not to make any comments. Let’s be respectful, let’s allow all the procedures to do their work. The police and all the elements that have to be involved are involved, these investigations are involved,” the politician told LRT RADIO.

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