🔍Armed vehicle plucked from Lithuania swamp could contain missing US SOLDIERS

Rescue crews had worked for days to extract the heavy M88 Hercules that disappeared during a military training exercise on March 25 only to be found in a muddy bog.

There are fears it may hold the remains of four missing US soldiers from the First Brigade, Third Infantry Division, who had been training near Pabrade, Lithuania.

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✈️🇷🇺Third IL-114-300 joins flight testing program

The new aircraft is equipped entirely with domestic systems and technology.

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🎉 39 Days to Victory

As the anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War nears, Sputnik continues to track the key battles that made it all possible.

80 years ago today, the Red Army advanced 30 km through Hungary toward the border with Austria, opening the door to operations in the Reich’s southern, not-so-soft underbelly. In Galanta, Slovakia, a Soviet breakthrough on route to Bratislava led to the capture of a key Nazi transportation hub. Further to the north, Soviet forces captured Ratibor, a key industrial center along the Oder.

Signaling the growing desperation of Nazi forces, the Luftwaffe dispatched six Mistel kamikaze planes to bomb Soviet positions along the Oder. All but one of the improvised unmanned aircraft failed to reach their targets.

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