Poland missile strike: Biden says ‘unlikely fired from Russia’ | Top updates

Russia has denied that its missiles hit the Polish territory, saying “statements by Polish media and officials…are a deliberate provocation aimed at escalating the situation.”

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attend an emergency meeting of global leaders after an alleged Russian missile blast in Poland, in Bali, Indonesia, November 16, 2022.(Reuters)

Preliminary information suggests it was unlikely that the explosion in a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine was caused by a missile fired from Russia, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. Biden was speaking after an emergency meeting by global leaders gathered for the G20 meeting in Bali. (Also Read | Poland blast: What NATO's Articles 4 & 5 say as Russia blamed for missile strike)

When asked about the possibility of a Russian missile strike in Poland, Biden said, "There is preliminary information that contests that. I don't want to say that until we completely investigate it but it is unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia but we’ll see.”

Asked whether it was too early to say that the missile was fired from Russia, Biden said: "There is preliminary information that contests that. I don't want to say that until we completely investigate it but it is unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia but we’ll see.”

He stressed that the US and NATO countries would fully investigate before acting.

"We agreed to support Poland's investigation into the explosion in rural Poland, near the Ukrainian border, and they're going to make sure we figure out exactly what happened," Biden said.Read more