President Joe Biden disclosed it is “unlikely” the Russian-made missile that killed two people in Poland was launched from Russia.
“There is plenty of information to contest that,” Biden told reporters in Bali, Indonesia. “I don’t want to say until we completely investigate. It’s unlikely in the [lines of] trajectory that it was fired from Russia, but we’ll see.”
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After convening an emergency meeting of G-7 leaders plus critical partners, including the Netherlands and Spain, Biden conveyed that the bloc “agreed to support Poland’s investigation … to make sure we figure out exactly what happened.”
“Then we’re going to collectively determine our next step as we investigate and proceed,” he said Wednesday morning local time. “There was total unanimity among folks at the table.”
The Russian-produced rocket hit the rural eastern Polish village of Przewodow, near the Ukrainian border, Tuesday afternoon local time. At the same time, Russia hammered Ukraine from the air.
Biden described Russia’s strikes on Ukraine as “totally unconscionable,” demonstrating their “inhumanity” by targeting cities and civilian infrastructure.
“The moment when the world came together at the G-20 to urge de-escalation, Russia continues,” he said. “There were scores and scores of attacks, missile attacks in western Ukraine.”
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Biden spoke with Polish President Andrzej Duda earlier Wednesday and expressed his condolences over the deadly bombing. Biden also called NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
