Guwahati: Initial evidence suggested that ukrainian military have fired the missile that hit Poland, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
US authorities have stated that the early evidence suggests that the missile that hit Poland was shot by Ukrainian forces in response to an approaching Russian missile, according to Reuters.
According to reports, US Vice President Joe Biden informed the G7 leaders that there are signs that the rocket was a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile.
“There are indications that the rocket which hit a village in eastern Poland was an anti-aircraft missile from Ukraine, US President Joe Biden told world leaders during a meeting on Wednesday, DPA has learned,” DPA tweeted.
The explosion in Poland took place on Tuesday (local time).
“On 15 November 2022, another hours-long, massive shelling took place of the entire territory of Ukraine and its critical infrastructure by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. At 3:40 pm, a Russia-made missile dropped on the village of Przewodow, district Hrubieszow, Lubelskie province, and resulted in the death of two citizens of the Republic of Poland,” the foreign ministry statement said.
Tuesday’s launch of two missiles into Poland resulted in the deaths of two people.
According to reports, the two rockets fell in the populated area of Przewodow in the Lublin Voivodeship near the Ukrainian border.
Following the explosion in the country’s east near the Ukraine border, Polish President Andrzej Duda spoke with both US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden held an “emergency meeting” with NATO and G7 leaders on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia.
Biden said that he briefed leaders about his conversation with Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.