Poland holds emergency security meeting after reports of fatal explosion
Warsaw — Defence alliance Nato states investigated reports that Russian missiles struck a village in eastern Poland on Tuesday, near the border with Ukraine, killing at least two people.
It added in a statement: “No strikes on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish state border were made by Russian means of destruction.”Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called an urgent meeting of a government committee for national security and defence affairs, government spokesperson Piotr Muller said on Twitter.
Latvian deputy prime minister Artis Pabriks said on Twitter that Russia “fired missiles which target not only Ukrainian civilians but also landed on Nato territory in Poland”. “Every inch of Nato territory must be defended,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Twitter.
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