The Russian Defense Ministry declared that reports of alleged Russian missiles falling on Polish territory are “a deliberate provocation with the aim of escalating the situation.”
«The statements of Polish media and officials about the alleged fall of ‘Russian’ missiles near the town of Przewodów are a deliberate provocation with the aim of escalating the situation«, he indicated.
The Ministry stressed that the country’s Armed Forces did not carry out “any attacks against targets near the Ukrainian-Polish state border.” Meanwhile, the remains of projectiles found near the area in question “have no relation” to Russian weapons, the Ministry stressed.
The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, has urgently convened the National Security Committee after reports of missiles falling on Polish soil, near the Ukrainian border. According to local media, the projectiles were detected in the province of Lublin, a few kilometers from the border line. According to reports there are 2 fatalities.
The authorities ask the press to avoid publishing any unverified information.
For its part, the Pentagon stressed that they still have nothing to say about the incident. Furthermore, when asked if the fall of missiles can cause the activation of NATO article 5 Regarding collective defense, the spokesperson for the US Department of Defense, Pat Ryder, stressed that “he does not want to speculate or enter into hypotheses.” “When it comes to our security commitments and Article 5, we have been very clear that we will defend every inch of NATO territory,” he stressed.
It should be remembered that NATO treaties establish that member countries consider that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America is considered an attack against the entire bloc.
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