Polish President Andrzej Duda said Wednesday there was an “indication” that the missile that landed on Polish territory and killed two was an “air defense missile”.
“There is no indication that this is an intentional attack on Poland,” he said. “There are many indications that it was an air defense missile which unfortunately went down on Polish territory.”
BIDEN SAYS MISSILE THAT KILLED 2 IN POLAND WAS “IMPROBABLY” LAUNCHED FROM RUSSIA INTO “TRAJECTORY MINDS”
Police officers work outside a grain depot where, according to the Polish government, the explosion of a Russian-made missile killed two people in Przewodow, Poland on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Poland said on Wednesday that a missile made in Russia fell on the east of the country, killing two people, although President Biden said it was “unlikely” to have been fired from Russia.
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Duda said the missile was most likely a Russian-made S-300 rocket, but added that officials “have no evidence at the moment that it was a missile fired by the Russian side.”
The Polish president’s comments are the most definitive ever by a NATO leader after President Biden told reporters on Tuesday it was “unlikely” that Russia had launched the missile.
“There is preliminary information disputing this. I don’t want to say until we fully investigate. It is unlikely in the trajectory’s mind that it was fired from Russia,” Biden said. “But we’ll see.”
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President Biden spoke with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday evening following the deaths of two people in Poland from Russian-made missiles.
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Biden promised to “make sure we find out exactly what happened.”
The missile fell on the Polish-Ukrainian border on Tuesday and landed in the village of Przewodów around 15:40
Three unnamed US officials told the Associated Press that preliminary assessments suggested the missile was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile.
An official first told the publication that Russian missiles crossed NATO territory before crashing in Poland’s eastern countryside.
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NATO officials rushed to investigate the incident and on Wednesday the Kremlin denounced the reaction of Poland and other countries to the incident as “hysterical”.
Though in rare praise for the US, Russia backed the US’s “moderate and much more professional” reaction
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also confirmed on Wednesday that the missile that hit Poland was likely a Ukrainian air defense missile.
“It’s not Ukraine’s fault,” he told reporters. “Russia is right about what happened yesterday because this is a direct result of the ongoing war.”
“Ukraine has the right to shoot down those missiles that target Ukrainian cities,” he added.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
