No indication incident in Poland was deliberate - NATO - Breaking The News

No indication incident in Poland was deliberate - NATO

16 November

1 min read

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed on Wednesday there were no indications the rocket explosion in a Polish border village that yesterday killed two people was caused by a deliberate attack from Russia.

However, Stoltenberg told reporters in a press briefing that the incident demonstrated the war in Ukraine continued to create "dangerous situations" in the whole region.

Stoltenberg agreed with the statement by Polish President Andrzej Duda, who revealed earlier that the explosion likely came as a result of a missile fired by Ukrainian air defense systems.

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