On Wednesday, Poland provided the first information gathered on the spot about the fall of the rocket that killed two people on its territory on Tuesday, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

“Today there is a lot of evidence that one of the missiles that was supposed to shoot down the Russian missile did not hit the target, the self-destruct system did not work, and this missile, unfortunately, led to the tragedy,” he said. Jakub Kumoh, head of the International Policy Department of the Office of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda.

He clarified that a group of Polish and American investigators is working at the scene of the accident, and Kyiv is also asking to participate in the investigation.

“If both sides agree, and as far as I know, there are no objections from the American side, then such access can be granted in the near future. If the investigative team does not have comments at the technical level, then there will probably be no reason to refuse the Ukrainians,” he said.

When asked by journalists what evidence the investigation is currently based on, Kumoch replied that it is “remains of the rocket and the depth of the crater”, while noting that experts are calculating the direction from which the rocket took off and the amount of fuel it contained. is used

He added that investigators also have video recordings, but he does not want to talk about their content because they are classified.

Warsaw rules out a deliberate attack on its territory

Kumokh emphasized that “no one accuses Ukraine of deliberately bombing the territory of Poland.”

“On that day, Russia bombed Ukraine, and Russia bears full responsibility for everything that is happening. It is like a situation where a person stepped onto the road and caused a collision between a car and a bus. Is the car to blame? No, the person who stepped onto the road and caused the accident is to blame,” he said.

Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday that the explosions in eastern Poland were an accident and that Warsaw did not consider the missile incident an attack on the country.

“From the information that we and our allies have, it was a S-300 missile manufactured by the Soviet Union, an old missile, and there is no evidence that it was launched by the Russian side. It is quite likely that it was launched by Ukrainian air defense,” he said, calling the disaster an “unfortunate incident.”

Poland and NATO believe that Russia is responsible for the incident

In an interview with CNN reporters on Wednesday, Poland’s ambassador to NATO, Tomasz Shatkowski, said that the incident would not have happened if Russia had not attacked Ukraine and committed war crimes by attacking civilian infrastructure.

“The final responsibility lies with Russia,” the Polish official emphasized.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in turn, said a day ago that the North Atlantic Organization has no evidence that the missile was deliberately launched towards the territory of Poland, and that the incident in no way weakened the allies’ determination to support Ukraine.

“I want to make it clear: this is not Ukraine’s fault, Russia bears all the responsibility as it continues the illegal war against Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

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