According to several media reports, two people were killed on Tuesday when two rockets hit a village in Poland near the border with Ukraine.

The Polish government did not initially confirm the information.

However, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called a meeting of the security cabinet in the early evening.

A meeting of the entire cabinet was announced for 9 p.m.

Government spokesman Piotr Müller called on the media not to spread unconfirmed reports.

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In the early evening, the Polish broadcaster Radio Zet, citing informal sources, reported that two stray Russian rockets had landed in the village of Przewodów in the Lublin Voivodeship, about five kilometers from the border with Ukraine.

This happened at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.

Two men were killed in a plant for drying grain.

The Polish broadcaster TVN24 published videos intended to show the location of the events.

A crater can be seen on it.

The AP news agency, citing a senior source in American intelligence circles, reported that Russian missiles had hit the village.

The US Department of Defense and the White House have officially announced that they do not yet have sufficient information and are examining the case.

In his evening video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke of Russian missiles that had hit Polish territory: "Today happened what we have been warning about for a long time.

Terror is not confined to the borders of our state.”

NATO is waiting for the outcome of the Polish Security Council meeting.

According to Article 4 of the NATO Council, Poland could then convene the North Atlantic Council to inform the Allies and discuss the consequences.

This has happened six times since the alliance was founded, mostly by Turkey.

Most recently, Ankara convened a special session in February 2020 after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by the Assad regime on Idlib in Syria.

According to Article 4, each member state can convene consultations if it considers that the "intact of the territory, the political independence or the security of one of the parties is threatened".

According to the Russian state news agency Ria Novosti, the Russian Ministry of Defense described the reports from Poland as "a provocation aimed at further escalating the situation".

Russian forces did not strike near the Polish-Ukrainian border.

However, according to Polish media reports, the incident happened in the afternoon, at the same time as the massive Russian rocket attacks on Ukraine began.

The local authorities initially only confirmed to the Polish media that two men died in an explosion in the village.

The cause is still being investigated.

However, Polish media quoted eyewitnesses as saying it was "something that fell out of the sky."

Not only the fire brigade and rescue workers came to the site, but also units of the Polish army.