China asked all parties “calm” on Wednesday after the information about the Russian-made missile that hit Poland and put the Polish army on alert.
“In the current situation, all parties involved must maintain calm and restraint to avoid escalation,” said Mao Ning, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing.
Likewise, the UN Secretary General defended on Tuesday night that it is “absolutely essential” to prevent the escalation of the war in Ukraine, expressing himself as “deeply concerned” by the fall of a Russian-made missile in Poland.
In a brief statement released by UN spokesman António Guterres, he called for a “thorough investigation” into the missile accident that killed two people in Poland.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Tuesday night that a “Russian-made projectile” hit the territory of this NATO country near the border with Ukraine, killing two people.
“In the village of Przewodów (…), a Russian-made projectile fell, killing two citizens of the Republic of Poland,” says a statement from the ministry’s spokesman, Lukasz Jasina.
In the same note it is added that the Russian ambassador in Poland was summoned to give “detailed explanations”.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden has said the missile that struck Poland and killed two people was unlikely to have been fired from Russia.
“There is preliminary information that questions that,” Biden told reporters when asked if the missile was fired from Russia.
“It is unlikely on the lines of trajectory that it was fired from Russia, but we’ll see,” he added.
On the other hand, the leaders of the G7 and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) decided to support an investigation into the Russian-made missile accident, the US president said.
Today, the US television network CNN reported that a NATO plane, flying over Polish airspace, tracked the missile that exploded in the country on Tuesday, killing two people.
“Information with radar tracks [do míssil] it was supplied to NATO and Poland,” added the same source, who was not named.
NATO planes have been conducting regular surveillance over Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.
However, CNN’s source did not provide further information about the firing of the missile or where it was launched.
Source: TSF
