WARSAW, November 16. /TASS/. Polish President Andrzej Duda does not rule out the fall of a missile in the east of the country on Tuesday might have been an accident.
"Most likely it was an accident," he said on Wednesday at the opening of a meeting of the National Security Council devoted to this incident.
Security Council meetings bring together the speakers of the upper and lower houses of parliament, the prime minister, foreign, interior and defense ministers, the minister-coordinator of special services, heads of parliamentary factions, a representative of the presidential staff and chief of the National Security Bureau.
On Tuesday, a missile fell in the village of Przewodow (Lublin Voivodeship), in eastern Poland on the border with Ukraine, killing two. Duda said it was not a deliberate attack on Poland. As Warsaw has found out, most likely it was a missile of the S-300 anti-aircraft system manufactured back in the 1970s and used by the Ukrainian missile and air defense.
The Polish government held an overnight meeting of the Security and Defense Committee. Also, Warsaw is holding consultations with NATO, the US and other allies. Duda has had telephone conversations with NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. The Polish government, too, is negotiating with partners at various levels. The Polish authorities have put all services on high alert and enhanced airspace monitoring.
The Russian Defense Ministry has dismissed as a provocation all allegations by the Polish media and officials about the fall of supposedly Russian missiles, saying that there were no strikes by Russian weapons near the Ukrainian-Polish border. As the Russian Defense Ministry said, judging by the published photos, the fragments had nothing to do with Russian weapon systems.