WASHINGTON: Western media reports have quoted US officials as saying that the initial findings suggest missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at incoming Russian missile. The explosion on Tuesday at a grain facility near the Ukrainian border came as Russia unleashed a wave of missiles targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure, attacks that Kyiv said were the heaviest in nearly nine months of war.
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Reports quoted three US officials as saying that preliminary assessments suggested the missile was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile amid a crushing salvo against Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure.
The findings came hours after a deadly explosion in Poland that killed 2 people. Polish defense ministry was quick to respond, identifying the missile as being made in Russia. But Poland’s president, Duda, was more cautious about its origin, saying officials did not know for sure who fired it or where it was made. He said it was “most probably” Russian-made, but that was still being verified.
US President Joe Biden, on the other hand, told reporters it was “unlikely” the missile that killed two people in eastern Poland was fired from Russia. He was quoted as having said “there is preliminary information that contests that, it is unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia, but we’ll see.”
