Ukrainian defence likely caused blast: Poland, Nato

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Poland’s president and the secretary-general of Nato said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian air defence missile most likely caused a deadly explosion on Polish territory a day earlier but emphasised that Kyiv was not to blame for trying to defend itself.

President Andrzej Duda noted that Russian forces had launched a barrage of missile strikes on Ukraine on Tuesday. He said that early indications suggested that Ukrainian efforts to counter the barrage had caused an “unfortunate accident” in Poland — not a direct attack on his country.

“We have no evidence at the moment that it was a rocket launched by Russian forces,” Duda said. “However, there are indications that it was a missile that was used by Ukraine’s antimissile defence.”