MOSCOW, 16 Nov. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv was not involved in the fall of rockets in the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland, which killed two civilians. The newspaper «Strana» writes about this.
«I have no doubt that it was not our missile or not our missile attack,» the Ukrainian leader assured. participation in the investigation of the incident. In addition, Zelensky urged «to be fair» and first to prove the guilt of the air defense forces of the republic.
Earlier, the Polish media reported the fall of two shells in the Lublin Voivodeship on the border with the Lviv region. As a result of the incident, two people died. According to the Associated Press, these were anti-aircraft missiles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Later, the Ukrainian army informed the United States and other Western allies that it was trying to intercept a Russian missile during a time period coinciding with the incident in Poland, CNN reported, citing a source in the US administration.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, specialists identified the wreckage in images from the explosion site in Poland as elements of the Ukrainian S-300 air defense system. Precision strikes were carried out only on targets on the territory of Ukraine and at a distance of no closer than 35 kilometers from the border with Poland, the department specified.