A missile that killed two people in Poland was unlikely to have been launched from Russia

A missile that killed two people in Poland was unlikely to have been launched from Russia, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday (16 neighboring countries. Tuesday's explosion  at a grain factory near Ukraine's border came as Russia launched a wave of rockets fired at Ukraine's energy infrastructure, attacks that Kyiv said were the most intense in nearly nine months of war.

Polish Foreign Ministry said the rocket fell on Przevodov, a town about 6 km from the Ukrainian border.US officials said According to the Associated Press, preliminary findings indicated that the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at an oncoming Russian missile, after Polish President Andrzej Duda  told reporters it was "probably a Russian-made missile." ' but there is no concrete evidence as to who fired it and the incident is unique quirky.

A local resident, who asked not to be named, said the two victims were men  near the weighing area of ​​a grain factory. The Russian Defense Ministry denied that  Russian missiles had hit Polish territory, calling such reports  "a deliberate provocation aimed at escalating the situation". 

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had no information about an explosion in Poland. Any Russian attack on Poland could risk escalating the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as members of the North  Atlantic Treaty Organization of '

 (NATO) are committed to collective defense. under his Article 5. Biden called a meeting of several leaders gathered in Bali, Indonesia for a G20 summit to discuss the incident.

Leaders from NATO members  Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France and the UK attended, as well as non-NATO  Japan and representatives from the European Union. They were asked if it was too early to tell if the rocket was fired. from Russia, Biden said: “There is preliminary information that refutes that. 

I don't want to say that until we've fully investigated it, but it's unlikely  it was fired from Russia, but we'll see. " The United States and NATO countries will investigate thoroughly before acting, Biden said. NATO ambassadors are expected to meet later  Wednesday.