Moscow welcomes the American “restraint” and Ukraine announces the return of electricity after the Russian bombing

Poland and NATO: The fall of the missile in Poland was not a Russian attack

Polish President "Left" during a meeting of the National Security Council at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.

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Poland announced yesterday that there was "absolutely no indication" that a missile that fell in Polish territory, killing two people, was a deliberate attack on a NATO member state, and that Ukraine may have fired a Soviet-era missile during the war. Addressing a Russian missile.

While Moscow confirmed that Russia had "nothing to do" with the fall of the missile in Poland, and welcomed the American "restraint" in this incident, which aroused great tension, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the repair of most of the power outages following the Russian missile strikes on Tuesday.

In detail, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated, “The Ukrainian defense was firing missiles in different directions, and it is very likely that one of these missiles fell, unfortunately, on Polish territory.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, to suggest that it was a deliberate attack on Poland.”

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, at a meeting of the military alliance in Brussels, agreed with this assessment.

"We have no indication that this was the result of a deliberate attack," Stoltenberg told reporters.

The investigation into this incident is ongoing, and we need to wait for its results.”

The initial findings came after US President Joe Biden and Ukraine's other Western backers threw their weight behind an investigation, and amid repeated assurances from Russia that it did not launch the missile.

Biden said it was "unlikely" that Russia fired the missile, but added, "I will make sure to find out exactly what happened."

On Tuesday, the missile fell near Poland's border with Ukraine.

Three US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said initial assessments were that Ukrainian forces had fired at a Russian missile.

That assessment, and Biden's remarks at the G-20 summit in Indonesia, contradicted information earlier Tuesday from a senior US intelligence official who told The Associated Press that a Russian missile had crossed into Poland.

In Brussels, NATO said a missile fired by Ukrainian air defense was likely the cause of an explosion in eastern Poland, adding that there was no indication of a deliberate attack or that Russia was preparing offensive military operations against the alliance.

"This is not Ukraine's fault," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels.

Russia bears the last responsibility as it continues its illegal war against Ukraine.

For her part, Belgian Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder said that the explosion that killed two people in eastern Poland was "the result of Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense systems used to intercept Russian missiles."

In Moscow, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said that the round of missile attacks on Ukraine on Tuesday was directed against the country's "military leadership" and "energy facilities associated with it," and did not affect Poland.

He added that the missiles hit their targets successfully, although Ukraine says it shot down many missiles in the air.

He added that the missiles that fell in Poland on Tuesday, killing two people, were from air defense systems used by Ukraine.

He said that the Russian experts concluded this analysis after studying the photographs.

He said there were no Russian attacks within 35 kilometers of the Polish border.

The Kremlin accused some Western countries, particularly Poland, of responding "hysterically" to the incident, but said the United States and its President, Joe Biden, had shown restraint.

And Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added that Biden had shown "restraint" in his comment on the explosion.

In Kyiv, Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said yesterday that Russia is responsible for any "missile accidents" after launching the war on his country.

On the other hand, the Ukrainian President announced the repair of most of the power outages following the Russian missile strikes, the day before yesterday.

Zelensky said, during a video address, that repair teams and energy providers worked through the night.

He added, "Most of the energy consumers have reconnected to the grid in various regions."

The deputy head of the presidential office Kirillo Tymoshenko that thousands of families in a number of western and northern regions are still facing problems in obtaining electricity in full.

Energy companies have also warned that customers should be prepared for unannounced outages as repairs continue.

For its part, Russia confirmed that it had destroyed all its targets in its massive strikes on Ukraine on Tuesday, noting that it had targeted the Ukrainian military leadership and energy infrastructure.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said, "The goal was achieved, all missiles accurately hit the specified targets, all these sites were destroyed," adding that they targeted "the Ukrainian military leadership and energy facilities associated with it."

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