NATO ambassadors will meet this Wednesday at the request of Poland after the explosions near the border with Ukraine that killed two people, Reuters agency advanceswhich quotes two anonymous European diplomats.
The meeting must take place based on article 4 of the covenantwhich establishes that the allies “will consult each other whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of one of the parties is threatened.”
One of the diplomats mentioned stresses that the alliance wants to act with time and caution, to understand exactly what happened.
Tonight, the Polish government said it was still investigating the explosion, without attributing responsibility to the Russian missiles, but saying it had raised “the alert level of some military units.”
“It has just been decided to raise the alert level of certain combat units… and other military personnel,” government spokesman Piotr Müller said after an emergency meeting of the National Security Council.
The Polish authorities are also evaluating whether it is necessary to consult their NATO partners, given the existence of a threat on their territory.
The head of the National Security Council, Jacek Siewiera, said, in turn, that the Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, held a conversation on this subject with the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, to analyze “the conditions of use of the Article 4 of the Atlantic Alliance.
Jakub Kumoch, Secretary of State for the Polish Presidency, said that President Andrzej Duda spoke by phone tonight with US Head of State Joe Biden.
A senior US intelligence official said today that Russian missiles landed on NATO member Poland in an incident that killed two people.
In reaction, the Russian Defense Ministry said today that reports of Russian missile launches in Poland are “a deliberate provocation to escalate the situation”, denying responsibility for the attack.
In a statement, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation added that the remains in the photographs published by various Western media “have nothing to do with Russian means of destruction.”
On the other hand, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of firing the missiles at Poland, arguing that it is an “attack on collective security” and a “very significant escalation” of the conflict.
According to Polish media, two people died this afternoon after a shell hit an agricultural area in Przewodów, a Polish town near the border with Ukraine.
Source: TSF
