The United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies are investigating the explosion that killed two people in Poland. But initial information suggests it may not have been caused by a missile fired from Russia, President Joe Biden said.
Biden spoke after global leaders met for an emergency G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on Wednesday after the explosions, which local officials and Ukraine said were caused by Russian-made missiles.
Asked if it was too soon to say that the missile was fired from Russia, Biden explained: “There is preliminary information that disputes this. I don’t want to say this until we have fully investigated it, but it’s unlikely, given the trajectory lines, that it was fired from Russia, but we’ll see.”
The US and NATO countries would thoroughly investigate before acting, he added.
The meeting was convened by Biden, the White House explained, after two people died in an explosion in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine.
“We have agreed to support Poland’s investigation into the explosion in rural Poland near the Ukrainian border and they will ensure that we find out exactly what happened,” Biden said.
“And then we will collectively determine our next step as we investigate and move forward. There was complete unanimity among the people at the table,” she continued.
Leaders from the United States, Germany, Canada, Holland, Japan, Spain, Italy, France and the United Kingdom participated in the meeting. All but Japan are members of NATO, the defense alliance that also includes Poland.
The determination that Moscow was to blame for the explosion could trigger NATO’s principle of collective defense known as Article 5, in which an attack on one of the Western alliance’s members is considered an attack on all, initiating deliberations on a possible military response.
Poland has said it is looking into whether it needs to request consultations under the alliance’s Article 4, which allows NATO members to bring any matter of concern, especially security-related, to the North Atlantic Council for discussion.
Poland summoned Russia’s ambassador to Warsaw for an explanation after Moscow denied it was responsible.
Source: CNN Brasil
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