Russia on Tuesday called reports that Russian missiles hit Poland, a NATO member and neighbor of Ukraine, which called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council, “provocations”.
“Statements by Polish media and official officials about an alleged Russian missile fall near the town of Przewodow is an intentional provocation with the aim of creating an escalation of the situation,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on its statement. Telegram account.
“No strikes were carried out on targets close to the Ukrainian-Polish border” by the Russian army, the Ministry of Defense said.
The images of “debris published by the Polish media from the scene of the events in the locality of Przewodow have no connection” with Russian projectiles, he added.
Russia fired dozens of missiles into Ukrainian territory on Tuesday, according to kyiv. In the past, debris from Russian missiles has already fallen in Moldova, another country neighboring Ukraine.
A Russian strike on Polish territory would mark a major escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, with a risk of enlargement.
The US Department of Defense said it was “examining” press reports that two Russian missiles “hit a place in Poland or on the border with Ukraine”.
The Polish government, for its part, said it had convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council on Tuesday evening “following the current crisis situation”, without giving details.
Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine, invaded on February 24 by Russia, is a member of NATO and some 10,000 American soldiers are in the country.
Article 5 of the Atlantic Alliance Treaty stipulates that if a Member State is the victim of an armed attack, the others will consider this act of violence as an armed attack directed against all the members and will take the measures deemed necessary to come to the aid of the attacked country.