The President of the Government, António Costa, described this Tuesday as “worrying” the information that has come from Poland in the last hours, after some explosions near the border with Ukraine have caused two deaths.
“The news coming to us from Poland is worrying. We are closely monitoring the situation with local authorities and our allies in the EU and NATO,” the prime minister wrote on Twitter.
“#Portugal stands in solidarity with #Poland”, reads the same post on the social network.
A senior US intelligence official said today that Russian missiles landed on NATO member Poland in an incident that killed two people.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki urgently summoned the Polish National Security Commission following these reports, but the government spokesman urged the media not to publish “unconfirmed information”.
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
