As the war hawks go hell-for-leather to implicate Russia in an alleged missile strike which landed in a farm across the Polish border, President Biden has appeared to have thrown cold water on the Article 5 hysteria.
When asked on Tuesday about what he plans to do about the supposed breach of ‘NATO territory’, Biden admitted that it’s unlikely the missile was fired from Russia, and said that any final conclusions should be withheld until a proper investigation was undertaken by the relevant authorities.
“There is preliminary information that contests that (the conclusion that Russia fired a missile into Poland),” said Biden to a bank of reporters.
He then added, “I don’t want to say until we completely investigate. It’s unlikely in the minds of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia.”
So it seems that Biden is pulling back from a major NATO escalation as a result of this delicate situation which risks dragging global powers into a new world war.
What actually happened?
RT International reports…
Russia has not carried out any strikes against targets near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the defense ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday, following reports of a missile striking the village of Przewodow and killing two civilians.
Some Western media outlets and politicians have claimed that Russia is responsible for the incident. However, no evidence has been provided to support such assertions.
Missile fragments, photos of which were published by Polish media outlets on the scene, “have nothing to do with Russian weapons,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Statements by the Polish media and officials about the alleged ‘Russian’ missiles falling in the area of the village of Przewodow are “a deliberate provocation in order to escalate the situation,” the Russian military added.
Poland convened an emergency meeting of its national security council on Tuesday evening, after reports that at least two civilians were killed when one or more missiles struck the village in the Lublin region, just across the border with Ukraine.
While the AP reported that Russian missiles had crossed into Poland, citing an unnamed “senior US intelligence official,” the Pentagon declined to corroborate the claim.
“I can tell you that we don’t have any information at this time to corroborate those reports and are looking into this further,” Air Force Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told reporters, when asked about the Przewodow incident.
Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller called on the media and the public “not to publish unconfirmed information.”
Officials from the Baltic states blamed Russia and claimed that Poland should invoke NATO’s Article 5 in retaliation. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of “terrorism” and said NATO needed to “act” against this “attack on collective security.”
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