The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, indicated on Tuesday that there is no “conclusive evidence” of responsibility for the missile that fell on a town in the country and killed two people, but added that it was “highly probable” that Warsaw would request the activation of the NATO Article 4.
Speaking moments after Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also spoke, Duda said there is “no clear evidence as to who launched the rocketand addressed his condolences to the families of the victims.
“We are awaiting the results of the investigations,” he explained, adding that he has a “clear message of support” from US President Joe Biden.
Regarding the NATO meeting that will take place this Wednesday, Duda said that it is “highly probable” that the Polish ambassador “requests the activation of article 4” of the alliance, which establishes that the allies “will always consult where, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of one of the parties is threatened”.
What happened was “undoubtedly the explosion of a missile”, and “all the allies” assured Poland of their support, “even under Article 5”, he also asserted, before stressing that “Poland’s protection was strengthened, but there are no indications that more such events may occur.”
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
Source: TSF
