Ukrainian Pres. Zelenskyy disputes claim by Poland that a missile strike that hit a Polish village killing two people came from Ukrainian air defenses. Polish Pres. Andrzej Duda earlier had called the incident a 'tragic accident.'
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But U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in an on-camera briefing Wednesday said there's "nothing that contradicts President Duda's preliminary assessment that this explosion was most likely the result of a Ukrainian air defense missile that unfortunately landed in Poland." The Polish foreign minister also summoned the Russian envoy to explain the explosion near the Ukrainian border.
Russia claimed that its precision strikes were carried out on targets within Ukrainian territory and at a distance no closer than 35 km from the Ukrainian-Polish border. After he was briefed on the incident, President Joe Biden spoke with Duda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday.
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