Poland says there is “absolutely no indication” that a missile that came down in Polish farmland, killing two people, was a intentional attack on the NATO country, and that Ukraine likely launched the projectile as it fended off a Russian air assault.
Police officers work outside a grain depot where, according to the Polish government, an explosion of a Russian-made missile killed two people in Przewodow, Poland, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Poland said Wednesday that a Russian-made missile fell in the country’s east, killing two people, though U.S. President Joe Biden said it was"unlikely” it was fired from Russia.
The initial assessments of Tuesday’s deadly missile landing appeared to dial back the likelihood of the strike triggering another major escalation in the nearly 9-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine. If Russia had deliberately targeted Poland, that could have risked drawing NATO into the conflict. Ukrainian air defenses worked furiously against the Russian assault Tuesday on power generation and transmission facilities, including in Ukraine’s western region that borders Poland. Ukraine’s military said 77 of the more than 90 missiles fired were brought down, along with 11 drones.
The Polish president said the projectile was “most probably” a Russian-made S-300 missile dating from the Soviet era. In Europe, NATO members Germany and the U.K. laced calls for a through investigation with criticism of Moscow.
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