“No strikes were carried out on targets close to the Ukrainian-Polish border” by the Russian army, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
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Moscow called “provocation intentional“ reports that Russian missiles hit Poland on Tuesday, November 15, near the locality of Przewodow, close to the Ukrainian border. The Russian Ministry of Defense denounced the will “to create an escalation of the situation”.
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“No strikes were carried out on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish border” by the Russian military, the ministry added on Telegram. The pictures 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 claimed.
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, while Poland joins NATO.
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.
The Polish government, for its part, called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council on Tuesday evening. “following the current crisis situation”without giving details.