The Kremlin said on Wednesday that some countries had made “baseless statements” about an explosion that occurred on Tuesday in Poland near the border with Ukraine, Reuters reports.

Spokesman Dmytro Peskov told reporters that Russia had nothing to do with the incident, which he said was caused by the S-300 air defense system.

He added that he did not know whether special channels of communication with Washington or NATO were involved, but that the US response was “low-key” compared to other countries.

“No, we do not see any guilt,” the Kremlin spokesman answered when asked by foreign media whether Russia is to blame for the incident in Poland, if it is indirectly related to a series of explosions on Ukrainian territory, Ukrinform reports. Press of the Russian news agency TASS.

“As for the incident in Poland, Russia has nothing to do with it. And everything must be called correctly,” Peskov emphasized.

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Peskov accuses a Russophobic reaction

This whole situation is another example of rampant Russophobia, Peskov claims.

“We witnessed yet another hysterical, frantic and Russophobic reaction, which was not based on any real data. In fact, high-ranking representatives of various countries made statements without knowing what exactly happened,” he said.

Earlier, the president of NATO-member Poland said Warsaw had no hard evidence to determine who fired the missile that hit a Polish grain complex about 6 km inside the border with Ukraine, killing two people.

A NATO source told Reuters that US President Joe Biden told the G7 and NATO partners that the missile explosion in eastern Poland was caused by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile.

Reaction after the incident in Poland

Zelensky repeats that the missile that fell on Poland was launched by Russia. The missile attack on Poland “is nothing more than Russia’s message to the G20 summit,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Wednesday during a video conference before the leaders of the group gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali, in the context of the version that it was after all was about a missile of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft system, is becoming more and more plausible, AFP, EFE and DPA report.

US President Joe Biden informed NATO allies and G7 leaders that the explosion in Poland could have been caused by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile, a NATO source told Reuters.

Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said at a press conference on Wednesday that it was impossible to say at this time the origin of the missile that killed two people in Poland on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

The deadly explosion of a missile on the territory of Poland “would not have happened without the terrible missile attacks of Russia against Ukraine,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Wednesday, according to CNN.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday that a full investigation is needed before conclusions can be drawn about a missile strike in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, Reuters reported.

People’s deputy of Ukraine Kira Rudik said on the air of the British TV channel Sky News that despite the origin of the missile that hit Poland, Russia is ultimately to blame, The Guardian reports.

All parties should “remain calm and restrained under the current circumstances,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said on Wednesday, commenting on the explosion that killed two people in Poland, The Guardian reported.

Russia has turned the eastern part of Europe into an unpredictable battlefield, Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine, responded to Joe Biden’s statements, according to which “it is unlikely that the missile that fell in Poland was launched from Russia,” writes Reuters.

“We are dealing with the consequences of Russia’s actions. These consequences affected Poland for the first time since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Polish citizens were killed,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavel Yablonskyi said on Wednesday about the explosion in Przewodów, reports Onet.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that he respects Russia’s statement that Russian missiles did not hit Polish territory. The leader of Ankara believes that Moscow “had nothing to do with it”, reports Reuters.