Russia has not carried out any strikes against targets near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the defense ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday, following reports of a missile, thought to be Russian, striking the village of Przewodow and killing two civilians.
Missile fragments, whose photos were published by the Polish media on the scene, “have nothing to do with Russian weapons,” the Russian Defense Ministry said. Russia has carried out no strikes on the area along Ukraine’s border with Poland, the military added.
Statements by Polish media and officials about the alleged ‘Russian’ missiles falling in the area of the village of Przewodow are “a deliberate provocation in order to escalate the situation,” the Russian military said.
Poland has convened an emergency meeting of its national security council on Tuesday evening after reports that at least two civilians were killed when one or more missiles struck the village in the Lublin region, just across the border with Ukraine.
While AP reported that Russian missiles had crossed into Poland, citing an unnamed “senior US intelligence official,” the Pentagon declined to corroborate the claim.
“I can tell you that we don't have any information at this time to corroborate those reports and are looking into this further,” Air Force Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told reporters, when asked about the Przewodow incident.
The Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller called on the media and the public “not to publish unconfirmed information.”
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