According to Polish investigation, a rocket that killed two people in southeastern Poland last November came from Ukraine. The announcement comes at an explosive time. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have noticeably cooled recently.
Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said on Thursday that an investigation by Polish prosecutors had reached the “clear” conclusion that the missile was Ukrainian.
The investigation determined the location “from where the missile was fired,” Ziobro said. So it was a Soviet-made bullet. He also regretted Ukraine’s lack of cooperation in the investigation.
Poland: Russia is still to blame
The rocket struck the Polish village of Przewodów, near the Ukrainian border, in November, killing two people. Poland and NATO had already said at the time that the impact was likely caused by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile fired to fend off Russian missile attacks.
Photos of the impact at the time:
But Moscow is responsible for the war of aggression against Ukraine. Without the attack on the country, the Ukrainian missile would never have found its way to Poland.
The announcement comes at a time when the two countries are already tense. The reasons were a Polish ban on the import of grain from Ukraine and unclear statements from the Polish side about possible restrictions on arms supplies.
Real argument or election campaign?
According to expert Maria Skóra, this is mainly due to the upcoming parliamentary elections in Poland. The recent statements by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki that he would no longer supply weapons to Ukraine, and of President Andrzej Duda, who compared Ukraine to a drowning man, are therefore ‘one hundred percent election campaign’, says the research assistant at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin recently at the APA.
These were not messages for Zelensky, but rather addressed to the Polish electorate, she said. Last Saturday, the Ukrainian president tried to calm things down. The challenges on the common path are nothing compared to the strength that exists between the two peoples, Zelenskyj said during a stopover in Lublin, Poland, thanking the people of the NATO and EU country for supporting Ukraine’s defense against the Russian invasion.
Source: Krone
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