“I have no doubt that missile was not ours.” Ukrainian President reaffirms that the missile that killed two people in a Polish village, near the border with Ukraine, is “Russian”. “I have no doubt that this missile was not ours”said on the evening of Wednesday, November 16, Volodymyr Zelensky, on television, while stressing that kyiv wanted to be part of an international investigation group on this incident. “I believe it was a Russian missile, according to the military report” Ukrainians, he added. Russia has denied firing the missile. Follow our live.
The thesis of a Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense system. NATO officials said it was probably a missile from Ukraine. Warsaw itself judges “highly probable” whether it is a Ukrainian anti-aircraft projectile, evoking “an unfortunate accident”. The White House has no “nothing seen that contradicts” the hypothesis, put forward by Warsaw, that this missile came from “in all probability” of Ukrainian anti-aircraft defence, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council said on Wednesday.
Budapest castigates Volodymyr Zelensky. Hungary believes that the Ukrainian president gives “a bad example” claiming that the missile was Russian. “In such a situation, world leaders speak responsibly”said Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The fear of a major escalation. The fall of the missile on the Polish village of Przewodow raised fears that NATO could be drawn into the conflict in Ukraine, because Poland is protected by a collective defense commitment from the Atlantic Alliance.