Nato says search is ongoing amid confusion over missing US troops in Lithuania

US soldiers in a vehicle on a road towards a training range in Pabrade, Lithuania (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Nato has clarified comments that its secretary-general Mark Rutte made when he suggested that four US soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died.

“The search is ongoing,” Nato said in a statement posted on X on Wednesday. “We regret any confusion about remarks @SecGenNATO delivered on this today. He was referring to emerging news reports & was not confirming the fate of the missing, which is still unknown.”