NATO is clarifying comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even though the U.S.

The search for four US Army soldiers who went missing during a training mission close to Lithuania’s border with Belarus is ongoing, the US Army said Wednesday, after their armored vehicle was found submerged in a body of water.

Four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania during a training operation have died, according to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. U.S. and Lithuanian forces are searching for the soldiers,