The tension has been so great since Tuesday evening that Westerners prefer to wait rather than rush to react. They are thus cautious on Wednesday about the circumstances of the fall of a missile in Poland, which took place in the middle of the G20 summit where they were working to convince the countries of the South to condemn the war led by Russia in Ukraine.
This firing of a “Russian-made” projectile according to Warsaw, which killed two people, reinforces fears of an escalation of the conflict against which the leaders of the 20 major world economies gathered without Vladimir have constantly warned. Poutine since Tuesday in Bali.
Everything will depend on the results of the “investigation”
From the Indonesian tropical island, American, French and British officials in particular have since early morning on Wednesday consulted their Polish and Ukrainian counterparts in a series of telephone calls. After an emergency meeting lasting nearly an hour, the Heads of State or Government of the G7 (United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Japan) and NATO brought their “full support” for Poland in a press release. Without accusing any officials immediately, they decided to “stay in close contact to determine next steps based on the investigation”.
“I’m going to make sure we can figure out what exactly happened,” Joe Biden said. “Then we will collectively determine the measures to be taken. ” While Poland, a member of NATO, mentioned a “Russian-made” missile and kyiv blamed Moscow, the American president indicated that it was ” improbable ” that the device was fired ” from Russia.
The missile fell on the village of Przewodow, in south-eastern Poland, not far from Ukraine which was targeted on Tuesday by intense Russian bombardments on infrastructure, but also not far from Belarusian territory used by the Russian army since the beginning of the invasion on February 24.