AP: US preliminary assessment suggests it was a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile that landed in Poland

Three anonymous US officials told Associated Press that preliminary assessments suggested the missile that landed in Poland on Tuesday, 15 November, killing two people, was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian one.

Source: Associated Press (AP)

Details: Speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the matter publicly, three US officials said preliminary assessments suggested the missile was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian one.

Earlier, AP reported that a US intelligence source has confirmed that Russian missiles entered the territory of Poland.

Russia launched a large-scale missile strike on Ukraine on the afternoon of 15 November. A missile crossed into Poland, landing not far from the Polish-Ukrainian border and killing two people. The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, has urgently convened a meeting of the Committee of the Council of Ministers for National Security and Defence. Poland will boost the combat readiness of some units of its forces and consider the possibility of invoking Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty.

In an address on the night of 15–16 November, the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, said that Warsaw has not confirmed who launched the missile that landed on the Polish territory but said that the missile was Russian-made. Poland has invited international experts to investigate the explosions on its territory.

The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed it had "nothing to do" with the missiles landing in Poland.

US President Joe Biden said that it was unlikely that the missile that caused an explosion in Poland on Tuesday and killed two civilians was fired from within Russia.

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