President Joe Biden has said it was “doubtful” that a bullet that killed two in NATO-supporter Poland was fired from Russia, but he pledged support for Poland’s disquisition into what it had called a “Russian- made” bullet.
Biden spoke after he convened an” exigency” meeting of the Group of Seven and NATO leaders in Indonesia on Wednesday morning for consultations on the attack that killed two people in the eastern part of Poland near the Ukraine border.
“There’s the primary information that contests that,” Biden told journalists when asked if the bullet had been fired from Russia.” It’s doubtful in the lines of the line that it was fired from Russia, but we’ll see.”
It wasn’t incontinently clear whether Biden was suggesting that the bullet had not been fired by Russia at all.
Ukraine still maintains stocks of former Soviet and Russian-made artillery, including the S-300 air-defence bullet system. On Tuesday, Kiev denied the “conspiracy proposition” that its bullet had landed in Poland.
Russia too rejected the allegation as “deliberate provocation”.
“No strikes on targets near the Ukrainian- Polish state border were made by Russian means of destruction. The wreckage published by Polish media in hot pursuit from the scene in the agreement of Przewodow has nothing to do with Russian munitions.”
BREAKING: Biden says the missile that hit Poland is unlikely to have come from Russia pic.twitter.com/mWaHlBuqgl
— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) November 16, 2022
Total agreement
Biden, who was awakened overnight by staff with the news of the bullet explosion while in Indonesia for the Group of 20 summits, called Polish President Andrzej Duda beforehand on Wednesday to express his” deep condolences” for the loss of life.
Biden promised on Twitter “full US support for and backing with Poland’s disquisition,” and “reaffirmed the United States ironclad commitment to NATO.”
Biden said that he briefed the abettors on his exchanges with Duda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and that there was “total agreement among the folks at the table” to support Poland’s disquisition into the attack.
“I ’m going to make sure we find out exactly what happen,” Biden said. “And also we’re going to inclusively determine our coming step as we probe.”
Meeting at a large round table in a chamber in his hostel, the US chairman hosted the leaders of the G-7, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, along with the chairman of the European Council and the high ministers of NATO abettors Spain and the Netherlands.
Two people were killed in an explosion in Przewodow, a vill in eastern Poland about six kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
I spoke with President Andrzej Duda of Poland to express my deep condolences for the loss of life in Eastern Poland and offer our full support for Poland's investigation of the explosion.
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 16, 2022
We will remain in close touch to determine appropriate next steps as it proceeds. pic.twitter.com/m6OSwcHKtD
Duda is conservative about bullet origin
A statement from the Polish Foreign Ministry linked the bullet as being made in Russia. But Poland’s President Duda was more conservative about its origin, saying that officers didn’t know for sure who fired it or where it was made.
He said it was “most presumably” Russian- made, but that’s being still vindicated.
Still, it would be the first time since the assault on Ukraine that Russian armament came down on a NATO country, If verified.
The foundation of the NATO alliance is the principle that an attack against one member is an attack on them all, making the source of the bullet launch critical for determining the coming way.
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