Two Polish citizens have been killed by what the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs refers to as Russian-made rockets. The US president says it is unlikely that they were shot from Russia.
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The Polish Foreign Ministry says a Russian-made rocket landed in the village of Prezewodow at 1540 local time on Tuesday. That is written by Reuters. The city is just over six kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
Poland has summoned the Russian ambassador and is demanding a quick and detailed explanation.
However, President Andrzej Duda says the country currently has no clear evidence of who fired the rocket at the village. He says it is very likely that Poland will trigger Article 4 in Nato at tomorrow’s crisis meeting.
He says there is no indication that what happened on Tuesday will happen again, and that it was probably a one-off.
Later on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden spoke to reporters in Bali during the G20 meeting. He says there is preliminary information that contradicts that the rockets were fired from Russia.
– It is unlikely given the course of the rockets that they came from Russia, but we will see, he told reporters at the G20 meeting in Indonesia, according to Sky News.
Earlier on Tuesday, before speaking to reporters in Indonesia, he called President Duda and sent his condolences after two Polish citizens were killed by missiles.
Duda explained to Biden that Poland is investigating what happened, and Biden promised Poland full support from the United States in the investigation.
Biden also reiterated the US’s commitments to NATO.
A senior US intelligence source told the AP earlier Wednesday night that it was Russian missiles that killed two Polish citizens.
If it turns out that a Russian missile has hit, it will be the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February that a NATO country has been attacked.
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawecki says the country is still working to find the cause of the explosion in the village. That is written by Reuters.
He asks all Poles to remain calm, and that Poland has increased surveillance of the airspace.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has announced a crisis meeting among the alliance’s 30 members on Wednesday.
US President Joe Biden has called an emergency meeting with leaders of G7 G7The G7 countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and the United States and Nato, writes NTB.
Foreign Minister Antony Blinken has been in contact with his foreign minister colleagues in Poland and Ukraine. The countries must keep in close contact in the coming days while the investigation is ongoing and a decision is made as to what the next step will be.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the alleged Russian attack on Poland is a “significant escalation” of the war.
French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also say they are following the situation closely.
German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz has also assured Poland that the country has Germany’s full support.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the reports that Russian missiles have struck Poland are “very concerning”, and says Australia stands by its support for Ukraine.
– Once again we ask Russia to withdraw its forces and end this unjust, immoral war, she says according to Sky News Australia.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense has denied that it was Russia that fired it, and says, according to the Financial Times, that it is a “deliberate provocation aimed at escalating the conflict”. Russia has not presented any evidence that other countries with such intentions have fired the rockets.
