An explosion killed two people Tuesday at a grain warehouse in the Polish town of Przewodow, near the Ukrainian border. One of the relatives of the victims, Stanislaw Iwanejko, heard the huge explosion and told the microphones that he had lost his two best friends.
“I started crying when I found out about his death, because they were my best friends,” Stanislaw Iwanejko told reporters. “I saw this on TV, so I took my bike and went there,” he explains.
But this man heard the explosion from his house: he lives a kilometer from the place of the tragedy. “He was at home and suddenly I heard a very loud noise. I felt right away that maybe it was a war. It was very loud, I don’t know how many decibels,” he says.
NATO and the Pentagon investigate
On Tuesday night, the Pentagon said it was investigating media reports that two Russian missiles “hit a location in Poland or on the Ukrainian border.”
NATO, for its part, “is examining this information (…) in close coordination with Poland. The secretary general of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, considers it “important that all the facts be established”. Because after nine months of war in Ukraine, a Russian missile falling on European soil would be a big turning point.
Russia on Tuesday called reports that Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s neighboring Poland, which has called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council, a “provocation.”
“The statements by the Polish media and official officials about an alleged drop of Russian missiles near the city of Przewodow is an intentional provocation with the aim of creating an escalation of the situation,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in its Telegram account statement. .
Source: BFM TV
