Polish PM says explosion Tuesday probably caused by shooting down of a Russian missile

The Ukrainian Air Pressure mentioned it should “do all the things” to facilitate an investigation right into a missile strike in Poland on Tuesday that killed two individuals close to the border with Ukraine.

“What occurred was the Air Protection Pressure repelling the air assault,” Yurii Ihnat, spokesperson for Air Pressure Command Ukraine, mentioned on Wednesday.

“What occurred subsequent – whether or not it was a Russian missile, or this was the wreckage of each rockets falling – this must be inspected on the web site. And that’s what is occurring proper now.”

“It’s obligatory to supply a authorized evaluation,” Ihnat added. “The method is ongoing, the specialists are working. It’s obligatory to ascertain which missile wreckage these had been, I do not suppose it could be too tough.”

“We advocate for a joint examination of the incident with the missile’s touchdown in Poland,” Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the Nationwide Safety and Protection Council of Ukraine, said on Twitter.

“We’re prepared at hand over proof of the Russian hint that now we have. We predict data from our companions, primarily based on which a conclusion was made that it’s a Ukrainian air protection missile.”

The feedback got here because the Russian protection ministry mentioned Ukraine’s air protection system is answerable for the strike, calling assertions blaming “Russian missiles” for being behind the explosion “a deliberate provocation with the goal of escalating the state of affairs.”

Ihnat additionally made reference to an incident on the finish of October, when a Russian missile intercepted by the Ukrainian navy fell on a village in Moldova.

“It is a actually resonant state of affairs, however this isn’t the primary time,” he mentioned. In that case, he defined a Russian missile was downed by Kyiv “after crossing the Ukrainian border with Moldova. The wreckage of a missile fell on the territory of Moldova.”