US navy’s assertion comes amid experiences of a lethal explosion that killed a minimum of two folks on Poland’s border with Ukraine
The US navy is “conscious” of experiences of missiles supposedly hitting Polish territory and killing two folks however don’t have any proof to verify them, Pentagon spokesman Air Drive Brigadier Common Patrick Ryder advised reporters on Tuesday.
Some western media shops and politicians have claimed that Russia is accountable for the incident. Nevertheless, no proof has been supplied to help such assertions.
“I can let you know that we have no data presently to corroborate these experiences and are wanting into this additional,” Ryder mentioned, vowing to offer an replace on the state of affairs when the US is best knowledgeable concerning the incident.
When pressed by journalists on an earlier AP report, citing a US intelligence official and claiming it was Russian missiles that had struck Poland, Ryder as soon as once more insisted that the Pentagon has “no data to corroborate” such experiences however is “wanting into it.”
His feedback got here as Poland’s authorities convened an emergency assembly to debate an incident that noticed a minimum of two folks killed within the Polish city of Przewodow within the Lublin area, not removed from the border with Ukraine. Some media then claimed the blast, which hit a grain drier, was attributable to a “stray missile” strike.
The Polish authorities didn’t verify these experiences, whereas authorities spokesman Piotr Mueller known as on media and the general public “to not publish unconfirmed data.”
The incident occurred amid a large-scale missile assault that Russia launched at Ukraine. The Ukrainian Vitality Minister German Galushenko known as it the “most huge shelling of [Ukraine’s] power system because the starting of the battle.” President Vladimir Zelensky earlier mentioned that a minimum of 85 missiles had been launched at Ukraine.
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