Russia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Poland’s ambassador to Moscow, Krzysztof Krajewski, after two Polish civilians were killed by missiles in the Ukrainian border town of Przewodow on Tuesday.
Although Ukraine and the Baltic countries initially suggested that the missile was of Russian origin, Poland, the United States and NATO stressed that there was no evidence of such a claim and later pointed out that the projectile had probably been launched by Ukraine to shoot down Russian projectiles.
As a result of this episode, the Polish authorities also summoned the Russian diplomatic representative in Warsaw, Sergei Andreev, in which, according to the ambassador himself, it was stated that the projectile was of Russian manufacture and «immediate explanations» were demanded.
This episode caused a great stir during the last hours of Tuesday, and soon followed the reactions of the main international powers, which called for caution in attributing responsibility for the incident, while stressing the firm position of the Atlantic Alliance in defending the territory of its member states in case they were threatened.
Russia, for its part, also came forward, in this case to deny the accusations about its responsibility in the incident, and stressed that the missile fragments seen over the Polish town do not correspond to the type of weaponry used by the Russian Army.
