Kyiv on Wednesday requested access to the site of a deadly blast in a Polish village after Western officials said the explosion there was likely caused by Ukrainian air defenses.
Debris, which locals claim to be that of a missile, is pictured at the site of an explosion in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, in this photograph obtained by Reuters on November 16, 2022.after Western officials said the explosion there was likely caused by Ukrainian air defenses.
"Ukraine requests immediate access to the site of the explosion," the secretary of Ukraine's national security and defense council, Oleksiy Danilov, said on Twitter.The Kremlin said earlier Wednesday Russia had "nothing to do with the missile blast." Ukraine has blamed Moscow but Western leaders said the missile was probably launched by Ukrainian air defense against a Russian barrage on Tuesday.
Polish President Andrzej Duda also said it was "very likely" the Soviet-era missile was launched by Ukraine in what he called an "unfortunate accident,"Danilov said he was "expecting information from our partners" leading to the conclusion that "it was a Ukrainian air defense missile." He asked for representatives of the Ukrainian border service and the defense ministry to be able to access the site and participate in a "joint examination of the incident."
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