Russia’s Defense Ministry says its experts have identified the remains of a missile that fell in Poland on Tuesday night, killing two people, and that the incident was a “deliberate” provocation, The Guardian reports.
“The photos of the remains found in the village of Pshevodov, published in Poland on the evening of November 15, were clearly identified by Russian defense industry specialists as elements of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile guidance system of Ukraine. Force,” said the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, quoted by Reuters.
Moscow’s military denied any involvement in the incident on Tuesday night, saying it was a “provocation” and that its forces had not fired rockets into the Ukrainian-Polish border area.
“Statements by the mass media and Polish officials about the alleged dropping of “Russian” missiles near Przewodov are a deliberate provocation aimed at escalating the situation. No target near the Ukrainian-Polish state border was hit by Russian weapons,” the Ministry of Defense in Moscow reported yesterday evening.
A NATO source told Reuters on Wednesday morning that US President Joe Biden had told allies that an explosion that killed two people in Poland was caused by an anti-aircraft missile fired by Ukrainian forces.
Ukraine accuses Russia of missile attacks on its cities
Earlier, the Associated Press agency also wrote, based on the statements of three sources on condition of anonymity, that the missile that reached Poland was launched by Ukrainian forces at Russian ones.
Ukraine responded to the claims based on preliminary information, saying that any such incident was the responsibility of Russia, the country that started the war and launches missiles at its cities.
“In my opinion, it is necessary to follow one logic. Russia started and is waging the war. Russia is massively attacking Ukraine with cruise missiles,” presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Wednesday morning.
“Russia has turned the eastern part of the European continent into an unpredictable battlefield. Intention, means of execution, risks, escalation – all this comes only from Russia. And there can be no other explanation for any missile incident,” said presidential adviser Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
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