By Oyintari Ben
According to Joe Biden, the trajectory of the missile that struck Poland and killed two people makes it unlikely that Russia shot it.
Speaking at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, the US president has called an emergency meeting of western leaders to discuss the explosion on Nato territory, which might potentially escalate the conflict in Ukraine to a new, even more catastrophic level.
When questioned about whether the missile was launched from Russia, Biden responded, “Preliminary intelligence contradicts that. I won’t say that until we have finished our investigation. However, based on its trajectory, it is doubtful that it was shot from Russia. But we’ll see, we’ll see, he continued.
Before accompanying other G20 leaders to a Mangrove germination facility, Biden stated, “We pledged to support Poland’s inquiry into the explosion in rural Poland, near the Ukrainian border, and they’re going to make sure we figure out precisely what happened.
After calling an urgent meeting of the G7 group of western leaders to discuss the effects of the strike in Poland, Biden made his brief remarks.
The discussion brought attention to the likelihood that the incident was a Russian invasion of NATO territory, necessitating the use of the alliance’s collective self-defence clauses. Moscow explicitly denied responsibility.
Biden will be looking for concrete information on who fired the missile and their level of intent because he has always been driven to stop the war in Ukraine from spreading to Nato or Russia territory.
According to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the battle “significantly escalated” after Russian missiles struck Poland. He did not offer any proof.
According to the Russian defense ministry, rumors that Russian missiles had struck Polish soil were “a planned provocation intended to escalate the situation.”
“No strikes on sites near the Ukrainian-Polish state border were made by Russian means of destruction,” it continued in the statement.
Both Polish leaders—President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki—have advised restraint and precaution with false information.
