BRUSSELS, Nov 16 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a conversation with Polish President Andrzej Duda, who is monitoring the situation and consulting with allies.
«I spoke with President Duda about the explosion in Poland. I express my condolences over the loss of life. NATO is monitoring the situation, the allies are holding close consultations,» Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, a NATO official, on condition of anonymity, said that the alliance, in coordination with the Polish authorities, is studying reports of the incident. with Ukraine, two people were killed. Officially, the authorities did not confirm the information about the fall of missiles, nor did they name whose missiles they could have been.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, no strikes were made on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish state border, and the published photos of some debris have nothing to do with Russian weapons. All statements by the Polish media about the alleged fall of «Russian» missiles are a deliberate provocation in order to escalate the situation.
According to military expert Aleksey Leonkov, Russian cruise missiles could not reach Poland, but abnormally fired Ukrainian missiles of the S- system could fly there. 300: there have already been such examples before, including the defeat by Ukraine of anti-aircraft missiles of its own residential buildings.
The Pentagon said that in the situation with the alleged fall of missiles in Poland they intend to operate not with speculation, but with facts, for which there are sufficient opportunities to clarify. At the same time, until the facts are received, the Pentagon will not talk about the applicability of Article 5 of the NATO Charter, said military spokesman Patrick Ryder. This article states: the contracting parties agree that an armed attack on one or more of them in Europe or North America will be considered an attack on them as a whole.