WASHINGTON, November 16. /TASS/. The United States is taking time to figure out what happened in eastern Poland, Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the US Department of State Vedant Patel said on Tuesday.

"We will determine what happened and we will determine appropriate next steps, but like I said, this just happened within the past hour and so we are still taking the important time to figure out [what happenned]," he said.

"And we're working with the Polish government and our allies and partners and gather information and assess exactly what happen," the deputy spokesperson added.

The United States is not seeking escalation over Tuesday’s incident in eastern Poland, Patel said.

"The United States is certainly not trying to escalate or incite the situation at all," he told reporters.