A senior US intelligence official, quoted by the
Associated Press
agency , reported that
some Russian missiles fell on the soil of Poland
, a
NATO
country , in the small town of
Przewodów
, which is part of the Dołhobyczów municipality and is located
10 km from the Ukrainian border
.
Government spokesman Piotr Mueller did not immediately confirm the information, but says a
Council of Ministers for National Security and Defense
was underway , convened by Prime Minister
Mateusz Morawiecki,
in connection with a "crisis situation".
President Andrzej Duda also attended.
Also called a
urgent executive meeting in Warsaw
.
Also in
Hungary
, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has convened the Defense Council.
The Przewodòw fire brigade confirmed that
two people died
following two explosions that hit a site where cereals are dried.
The local newspaper
Kurier Lubelski
writes it .
Witnesses quoted by the newspaper said they heard two explosions.
The firefighters are "trying to establish the exact causes and circumstances of the accident," a spokesman said.
The whole area has been cordoned off.
In the previous minutes, the news had been published by
Radio Zet
and relaunched by
Ukrainska pravda
along with other Ukrainian media.
Mariusz Gierszewski, Zet journalist, about an hour later I said: "My sources in the services say that what hit Przewodòw are most likely the remains of a missile shot down by the Ukrainian armed forces."
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Przewodów, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland: the place where the two Russian missiles fell
The statements released by the Polish government and media about the fall of two Russian missiles on the territory of Poland are "a deliberate provocation with the aim of causing an escalation of the situation," said the
Russian Defense Ministry
, stressing that it did not attacks with Moscow weapons have been carried out against targets near the Ukrainian-Polish border and that the images shown by the Polish media showing the wreckage of allegedly fallen Russian missiles on Polish territory
have nothing to do with Russian armaments.
Shortly after these statements from Moscow, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky
spoke :
“They hit NATO territory with missiles.
It is a Russian attack on collective security.
A'
very significant
escalation .
We have to act."
"We are aware of press reports of Russian missile strikes in Poland. At the moment we have no other information that can confirm them. We are investigating," Pentagon
spokesman
Gen. Pat Ryder said in a press briefing.
He then added Ryder: "Our commitment to
Article 5 of NATO
is very clear: we
will defend every inch of NATO territory
".
Responding to a question about the US military stationed in Poland, he then specified that the US armed forces "take the security of our troops very seriously, wherever they are".
The
United Kingdom
authorities "are investigating" the news of the Russian missiles that fell in Poland "in close collaboration with the allies" of NATO, a spokesman for the British Foreign Office also declared.
"The criminal Russian regime fired missiles that not
only targeted Ukrainian civilians
but also landed on NATO territory in Poland.
Latvia
fully supports our Polish friends and condemns this crime," said the Latvian Defense Minister , Artis Pabriks.
"The latest news from Poland is very worrying. We are consulting closely with Poland and other allies.
Estonia
is ready to defend every inch of NATO territory. We are fully in solidarity with our close ally Poland," the ministry wrote. of Estonian Foreign Affairs.
Jaro Nad, Slovakia's defense minister, tweeted: “Very concerned about Russian missiles being launched into Poland.
Russia must explain what happened.
The senseless attacks on infrastructure must cease immediately.
Russia's recklessness is getting out of hand.
I will be in close contact with allies to coordinate the response."