The news revolved yesterday about Russian missile is denied today by NATO.
The news of two missiles hitting Poland, which killed two citizens of this country, has seen such changes in content from Tuesday night to Wednesday that it can be considered rare.
Last night, the news quickly became the first news of the international media and attracted attention. According to this news, two Russian missiles had hit the territory of Poland, a NATO member country.
Perhaps at first glance it seemed natural that during the conflicts related to the war in Ukraine and especially the heavy missile attacks of the Russians on the infrastructure of Ukraine yesterday, a missile had mistakenly hit the territory of a neighboring country, but the point was that this neighboring country is a member of the Atlantic Treaty Organization. North (NATO).
What immediately confused this news was that the CBS news channel, citing “a senior American intelligence official”, claimed that these were Russian missiles that hit the Polish soil. Last night, it was said that two Poles died when these missiles hit a village in Poland.
The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the news about this last night and described it as an attempt to worsen the situation, but the Russian ambassador was summoned to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, Polish fighters took off and started patrolling the skies of this country.
Of course, the US Department of Defense reacted cautiously to last night’s news and announced that it is investigating the issue. But the Associated Press news agency poured cold water on the fire of last night’s news this morning.
US officials told the American news agency on Wednesday that preliminary findings indicate that the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces to intercept Russian missiles. In other words, these missiles were defensive.
US President Joe Biden has also said in this regard: “There is preliminary information that shows the opposite of this [missile firing by Russia]. “I didn’t want to say this until the investigation is complete, but from the path taken by the missiles, it doesn’t appear that it was fired by Russia.”