Moscow denies having carried out a strike likely to have reached Poland
Smoke at the border between Poland and Ukraine, near the village of Nowosiolki in Poland, November 15, 2022. © Stowarzyszenie Moje Nowosiolki via REUTERS
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Information from the Associated Press sowed discord on Tuesday, November 15.
While Russia carried out intense strikes on Ukrainian territory, causing power cuts to Moldova, the AP news agency reported that two of these missiles had crashed in Poland.
Moscow assures that no strikes took place against targets close to Polish territory.
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Russian diplomacy, on its Telegram account, described this Tuesday evening as “
provocations
” the information according to which Russian missiles hit Poland, a member country of NATO and the EU.
Statements by Polish media and officials about an alleged fall of Russian missiles near the town of Przewodów is an intentional provocation with the aim of creating an escalation of the situation.
“
No strikes were carried out on targets close to the Ukrainian-Polish border
,” Moscow still assures.
The images of "
debris published by the Polish media from the scene of the events in the locality of Przewodow have no connection
" with Russian projectiles, he added.
Associated Press information
Earlier, the Associated Press reported that Russia, with its missile strikes on Ukraine today, reached Poland, where two people were killed.
AP quoted a senior US intelligence official.
A spokesman for the Polish government did not immediately confirm the facts.
The Pentagon said it could not immediately confirm either.
The US Department of Defense said it is investigating the information.
NATO too.
The White House said it is working with Polish authorities to determine what happened there.
Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the US National Security Council.
Contacted by Reuters, Polish firefighters confirmed that two people had died in an explosion in Przewodów, in the east, near the border with Ukraine, but themselves said they did not know the cause of this explosion.
Summit meetings in Warsaw and Budapest
On the other hand, what is certain is that the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, did indeed call an emergency meeting of his national security and defense affairs council in the evening, as reported by a government word on Twitter.
In Hungary, his counterpart Viktor Orbán also officially convened his defense council on Tuesday evening.
Like Warsaw, Budapest is a member of the Atlantic Alliance.
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