The U.S. soldiers had been at the center of a recovery mission in Lithuania for nearly a week after their armored vehicle sank near the country's border with Belarus.

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.

The bodies of three of four U.S. Army soldiers missing after their armed vehicle was found submerged in a bog in Lithuania last week have been recovered, the Army announced Monday.