BREAKING: Poland's president says the missile blast that killed two near the Ukrainian border appears to be an 'unfortunate accident,' not an 'intentional attack.'
“We have witnessed another hysterical, frenzied, Russophobic reaction that was not based on any real data,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday. He added that “immediately, all experts realized that it could not have been a missile linked to the Russian armed forces,” and pointed to a “restrained, much more professional reaction” of the U.S. and its president, Joe Biden.
Still, Scholz and others also laid overall but not specific blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “a very significant escalation.” On the other end of the spectrum, China was among those calling for calm and restraint.The Polish government said it was investigating and raising its level of military preparedness. On Twitter, Biden promised “full U.S support for and assistance with Poland’s investigation.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the meeting in Brussels of the alliance’s envoys. The U.N. Security Council also planned to meet Wednesday for a previously scheduled briefing on the situation in Ukraine. Polish media reported that the strike took place in an area where grain was drying in Przewodow, a village near the border with Ukraine.
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