With the first clear indications The source of the missile Dropped yesterday on one of the Polish border towns, Poland finally cut the doubts with certainty.
Polish President Andrzej Duda said it was “very likely”. Ukrainian defenses It is the source of the missile that landed in the town of Beshevodov on the Ukrainian border, killing two people.
He added: “The information we and our allies have about the missile shows that it was a Soviet-made S-300, which is an old missile and there is no evidence that it was fired on the Russian side.”
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Furthermore, he underlined in a press conference today, Wednesday, that “nothing indicates that it was a deliberate attack on our country”.
He added: “It is very likely that it was a missile used in Ukrainian missile defense,” describing the incident as unfortunate.
From the site of the missile crash in Poland (Reuters)
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He clarified that his country has not asked for the activation of Article 4 or 5 of the NATO Charter, which states that alliance members should be asked to discuss any attack and to defend and protect any member of the alliance who is subject to attack.
At the same time, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference today that preliminary analyzes indicate that the attack was carried out with Ukrainian defense missiles. He also didn’t add any indication that it was intentional.
Yesterday, US President Joe Biden informed NATO and Group of Seven (G7) partners that the missile was fired from Ukrainian air defenses.
Interestingly, if Russia were proven responsible for this bombing, it could lead to the activation of NATO’s collective defense principle known as Article 5, according to which an attack on one coalition member is considered an attack on all, and could thus triggering the start of consultations on a possible military response.
