Russia said: “We are not interested”.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he trusts Russia’s claims that it was not involved in the missile fall in Poland.
What is important for us is that Russia says ‘We have nothing to do with this’. In addition, Scholz stated at the meeting we held in the morning that this incident should be investigated in detail. It is also important that Biden denied that the missile belongs to the Russian Federation, at a press conference held within the scope of the G20 summit.
He added that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told him that he had consulted with six NATO countries and “concluded that it could be a technical error”.
“According to your data, this is not a Russian missile,” the Turkish president said, without specifying which six countries he was talking about.
The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Poland has initiated the meeting of the NATO Council in accordance with Article 4 of the main treaty. On the website of the North Atlantic Alliance to be specifiedThe meeting will be chaired by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. He will then speak to reporters at a briefing.
Article 4 of NATO’s core treaty states that “the parties shall always consult with each other if, in the opinion of either party, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the contracting parties is at stake”.
falling rockets
The night before, Polish media reported that two rockets fell on Polish territory – Lublin Voivodeship on the border with Ukraine, killing two. The country’s Foreign Ministry said the crashed missiles were manufactured in Russia. However, Polish President Anrzej Duda did not confirm the data of the country’s foreign ministry and noted that Warsaw currently does not have precise information about whose missiles landed on the country’s territory.
On the evening of November 16, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Polish media and officials’ statements about the alleged crash of Russian missiles in the Przewoduv settlement were a deliberate provocation to escalate the situation. .” The defense ministry also said that “there were no attacks by Russian means of destruction on targets close to the Ukrainian-Polish state border.”
In a statement made by the Russian Ministry of Defense, “The pieces published by the Polish media from the scene in the village of Przewoduv with hot pursuit have nothing to do with Russian weapons.”
USA location
The Pentagon said that if a rocket crashes in Poland, they plan to act on facts, not speculation. Until the facts come out, the Pentagon will not talk about the applicability of Article 5 of the NATO Charter, which would be considered an armed attack on one or more countries of the alliance, according to Patrick Ryder, the division’s official representative. as an attack on them as a whole.
US President Joe Biden called the G7 and NATO leaders to an emergency meeting. He stated that, according to his results, as a preliminary, the rocket did not reach Poland from Russia. The American president also discussed the event with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
“President Joe Biden met with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the sidelines of the G20 summit today. They also discussed the explosion in eastern Poland and our full support for the ongoing investigation in Poland,” the White House said in a statement. Declaration.
Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit, Biden said preliminary evidence shows that it is not a Russian missile.
“According to preliminary information, this has been denied. I don’t want to say this until the investigation is complete, but in terms of trajectory it is unlikely that it was launched from Russia. But we will see,” he said.
The American leader added that he plans to learn the exact circumstances of the missile incident in Poland and then decide what steps to take. He noted that the leaders of NATO and the G7 countries agreed to assist Warsaw in the investigation.
The Associated Press, in turn, reportedThe missile may have been fired by the Ukrainian military in response to Russian missile attacks.
“Three US officials said preliminary estimates showed that the missile was fired at an incoming Russian missile during a devastating salvo to Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure on Tuesday by Ukrainian forces.
Officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
“I am tormented by vague doubts”
First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky wrote on his Telegram channel that Russia was not responsible for the “missile attack” on Poland. He also announced that on 16 November, the UN Security Council would host an ordinary meeting on Ukraine.
“As the hero of the famous Soviet film said, “Again, I am tormented by vague suspicions …” But I will not play with conspiracy theorists. The Russian representative writes more and more clearly that the facts are important and that Russia is not involved in missiles that hit the territory of Poland.
According to him, Ukraine is trying to “provoke a direct military conflict between NATO and Russia, with all its further consequences for the whole world.”
“It is unthinkable for our former Western partners to acknowledge the role of Ukraine and Poland in this most dangerous provocation. But ignoring the facts and putting everything on Russia is a normal thing for them, even wondering how they will come out this time,” he concluded.
Source: Gazeta
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