Jens Stoltenberg nevertheless showed the finger at the Russian “responsibility” and the context of climbing attacks towards Ukraine.
Le Monde
The secretary general of the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) spoke of the explosion on Tuesday on Polish soil on the border with Ukraine in a press conference on Wednesday, November 16, which is is held after a meeting between the members of the Atlantic Alliance.
Specifying that NATO had “increased its vigilance on the eastern front”, Jens Stoltenberg said that a survey was underway. For the moment, according to him, there is “no indication” that this explosion is “the result of a deliberate attack”. He added that no element pointed out towards the preparation of a Russian “military offensive” against NATO.
“Preliminary analyzes suggest” that the incident was “probably” caused by Ukrainian defense systems, he said. A theory already advanced by Poland and the United States. Polish President Andrzej Duda said “highly likely” that the missile that affected his country will come from the Ukrainian defense. “Nothing indicates that it was an intentional attack on Poland. There is a high probability that it is a missile which was simply used by the Ukrainian anti-missile defense”, a- he said to the press on Wednesday. It is “probably an unfortunate accident, alas”, continued the head of state.
of American officials, cited Tuesday by the Associated Press agency, had said that the first observations suggested that it was a missile drawn by the Ukrainian forces to destroy a Russian projectile. No official declaration or any source to the world, however, intervened to confirm or deny this information.
“This is not Ukraine’s fault”
Jens Stoltenberg mentioned the context of climbing Russian attacks against Ukraine incident in Poland took place when Russia launched one of the most important strikes on Ukraine from the start on the same day from the start of the war. Ninety missiles were indeed drawn on seventeen Ukrainian regions, including that of LVIV, border of Poland. One person died and six were injured in the bombings, according to the Ukrainian authorities, and thirty infrastructures, some of which were criticism, were destroyed, according to the Minister of the Interior, Denys Monastyrsky.