Status: 11/15/2022 9:21 p.m
According to several media outlets, Russian missiles have hit Poland. It was said that two people died. Prime Minister Morawiecki convened a meeting of the National Security Council. The US wants to examine the reports.
According to unconfirmed media reports, two people died when Russian missiles hit Poland. Polish radio station ZET reported that two stray rockets fell in the village of Przewodow near the Ukrainian border. The AP news agency also reported, citing US intelligence circles, that two people had been killed in the impact of Russian missiles.
The US Department of Defense said the reports could not be confirmed at this time. A representative of the Polish fire brigade confirmed two deaths in an explosion. “It’s unclear what happened,” the officer on duty said. It would be the first such incident in Russia’s nearly nine-month war of aggression against Ukraine. Poland is a member of the EU and the western defense alliance NATO.
“There are said to have been two impacts and explosions with two fatalities”, Tobias Dammers, WDR, currently Kyiv, on the rocket attacks in Poland near the border with Ukraine
Tagesschau 8:00 p.m., 15.11.2022
Cabinet advises
Government spokesman Piotr Müller initially did not confirm the media reports. However, he warned against spreading unverified information. He announced on Twitter that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki had convened a meeting of the National Security Council. According to the PAP news agency, the cabinet of the NATO member country should meet in the evening. The reason was an unspecified crisis situation.
Official information about the crisis was initially not made, but reports suggested a connection with the massive Russian rocket fire on neighboring Ukraine. Russia had launched attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke of 85 rockets that would have caused numerous power outages. Among other things, Lviv was hit in the west of the country, which is around 50 kilometers from the Polish border.
Moscow speaks of provocation
In the meantime, Russia has also reacted. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow described the Polish media’s statements about rocket hits as deliberate provocations. The Interfax news agency quoted the ministry as saying that these had the aim of escalating the situation.
No targets in the Ukrainian-Polish border area were fired upon. The photos of alleged pieces of debris circulated in the Polish media also had nothing to do with Russian weapon systems, it said.