The President of Finland, Sauli Niinisto, has joined the group of leaders who have their doubts about the recipient of the missiles that on Tuesday fell in the town of Przewodow, near the Ukrainian border, killing two people and has stressed that the facts surrounding this accident must be thoroughly investigated.
«There are suggestions that it did not fly from Russian territory,» Niinisto said Wednesday at a press conference on the occasion of the official visit of his Mozambican counterpart, Filipe Nyusi, in which he highlighted the position adopted by most leaders in «keeping a cool head» at such a moment.
Niinisto has pointed out that all these events happen as part of the conflict, even those that were not planned. «Such are the horrors of war,» said the Finnish president, who expressed his condolences to the Polish people for what happened, according to the public broadcaster Yle.
Niinisto’s reaction is similar to that shown by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the Polish authorities, who have avoided pointing the finger at Moscow. The head of the White House has gone further and pointed out that it is «unlikely» that the projectile was launched from Russian territory.
«There is preliminary information that puts that in doubt. I don’t want to say anything until we investigate everything, but it is unlikely, given the trajectory, that it was fired from Russia. We’ll see,» Biden said.
NATO for its part has commented that it is «probable» that the impact of the missiles that killed two civilians was provoked by Ukrainian air defenses «to defend the territory from a Russian attack».
