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Poland Missile: False Alarm
Ukraine war: Russia denies responsibility for Poland blast
US President Joe Biden has said it is "unlikely" that a missile that killed two people in Poland on Tuesday was fired from Russia.
Russia has denied it was to blame for the missile that landed in Przewodow, on the Ukrainian border.
Poland said it was Russian-made, but US officials said initial findings indicated it was fired by Ukrainian air defences.
More than 90 Russian missiles were fired at Ukraine on Tuesday, Kyiv said.
Although the military said 77 were shot down, some of the missiles hit Lviv, not far from Ukraine's western border with Poland.
During the Russian attacks, two Polish workers were killed in a blast at a farm building in Przewodow, 6km (4 miles) from the border.
Earlier reported story:
Br(e)aking: Russian missiles strike Poland, kill two
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-kherson-9202c032cf3a5c22761ee71b52ff9d52
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded Ukraine's energy facilities Tuesday with its biggest barrage of missiles yet, striking targets across the country and causing widespread blackouts, and a U.S. official said missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, where two people were killed.
A defiant Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy shook his fist and declared: "We will survive everything."
Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller did not immediately confirm the information from a senior U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation. But Mueller said top leaders were holding an emergency meeting due to a "crisis situation."
Polish media reported that two people died Tuesday afternoon after a projectile struck an area where grain was drying in Przewodów, a Polish village near the border with Ukraine.
Neighboring Moldova was also affected. It reported massive power outages after the strikes knocked out a key power line that supplies the small nation, an official said.
I bet the reaction will be "Mmrrr-hhhhh... not enough/too soon for Article 5".
[Title updated to reflect new information. Content NOT changed as it is quoting what was said at the time. It is the middle of the night for me and I will update the content tomorrow. 17-04:12 Nov 2022 - JR]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2022, @05:55AM (1 child)
Remember that media in Poland are in fact a first-class communist-grade propaganda since at least 2015, for example I totally stopped turning the tv on the news when they made it politically dependent. So the first day after the "attack" they simultaneously spoke that nothing is confirmed and displayed a big text "RUSSIAN ATTACK ON POLAND" at the bottom. Now they are distracting people from the thing by using political opposition as always.
Ukraine can play it well, very well, and gain more supporters in the west. Now they start to go about it very badly. As in Poland there is a general conspiracy theory that Ukrainian intelligence holds some compromising info about Polish politicians, they may also play it very badly and Polish media can lie. Something like this accident when Ukrainian rocket fell on the city because Ukraine's army with ammunition shortages literally shot whatever they had, including soviet rockets not inspected for decades - while it was known from the beginning that it was Ukraine Army's accident, our media still lied that the rocket was Russian and it somehow teleported on crash site.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday November 17 2022, @01:53PM
Sure those dastardly Ukrainians do. So why doesn't the even better Russian intelligence hold even more of that compromising information than Ukraine? I think it should be obvious here that Poland remembers the Soviets: things like forty years of oppression and Katyn Forest. They won't let a second Soviet Union take them without a fight.