Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Saturday that four US soldiers have died in a plane crash. 

“It is with great sadness we have received the message that four American soldiers died in a plane crash last night,” he said on his official Twitter account. 

“The soldiers participated in the NATO exercise Cold Response. Our deepest sympathies go to the soldiers’ families, relatives and fellow soldiers in their unit,” he added. 

According to NATO: “Cold Response 2022 is a long-planned and regular exercise, which Norway hosts biannually. This year’s exercise was announced over eight months ago. It is not linked to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, which NATO is responding to with preventive, proportionate and non-escalatory measures.”

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