The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Tuesday that the incident that caused two deaths in Przewodów, a town near the country’s border with Ukraine, was caused by a “Russian-made missile.”
In note posted tonightit can be read that “at 15:40, in the town of Przewodów”, the fall of a “Russian-made missile killed two citizens of the Republic of Poland”.
“After this event, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Zbigniew Rau, summoned the ambassador of the Russian Federation and demanded immediate detailed explanations,” the Poles also reveal.
In the press release, the Polish government also notes that “on November 15 (…) a massive attack against the entire territory of Ukraine and its main infrastructure by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was observed for many hours.” “.
On Tuesday afternoon, a senior US intelligence official said Russian missiles had landed in Poland.
Following these reports, the Polish government raised “the alert level of some military units” following an emergency meeting of the Polish National Security Commission.
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.
This NATO article states that members “shall consult each other when, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened.”
Responding to the allegations, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that reports of Russian missile launches in Poland were “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 Tuesday afternoon after a projectile hit an agricultural area in Przewodów, a Polish town near the border with Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired “about” 100 missiles on Tuesday at electricity production infrastructures in several Ukrainian regions, causing power outages, in addition to also hitting residential areas and causing at least one death in the capital. Ukrainian, kyiv.
Source: TSF
