It is suspected that at least two of the nearly one hundred missiles that Russia launched this afternoon towards Ukraine crossed the border into Poland, where they killed two farmers; This is what the country’s media are reporting in recent hours. According to a report in the AP news agency, American intelligence officials confirmed that “Russian missiles crossed the border into Poland” in the latest attack. Pictures circulated in the media in Poland showed destroyed agricultural tools near a large crater that formed near the town of Przewodów, about ten kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
Polish media this evening raised the possibility that the damage to civilians was done by rocket interception systems that Ukraine activated against Russian missiles, or that it was the remains of a missile intercepted by Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense denied that it attacked the border area between Ukraine and Poland with missiles.” The US State Department and the Pentagon clarified to the media that the incident is under investigation.
The Polish government announced that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, after consulting with the president, would convene an emergency meeting of the National Security Council to discuss the events. The meeting is scheduled to take place at ten (Israel time). This is the first time that Russian missiles cross the border and hit a NATO member state. Article 5 of NATO states that an attack on one of the alliance members is tantamount to an attack on all of them, but it is not clear whether the alliance will treat the attack as a deliberate attack.
Today’s missile attack was carried out after the 20 G forum meeting in Bali agreed on a text criticizing Russia, and calling for an end to the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin canceled his participation at the last minute, and the country is represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented to the leaders of the countries a call for the end of the war, which includes conditions such as the complete withdrawal of the Russians from the territory of Ukraine. In the last day, the head of the CIA met with his Russian counterpart in Turkey, and according to the statement of the senior American, the US warned Russia against the use of nuclear weapons.