Polish authorities warned Thursday that they have received «strong pressure» to admit that the projectile that fell Tuesday in the east of the country came from Russia and not Ukraine.
The Polish deputy foreign minister, Arkadiusz Mularczyk, said in an interview with Radio 24 that «there has been great pressure» and stressed that, if it were Russian, «this would have set in motion new dynamics in the country and around the world».
In this sense, he expressed his greatest sympathy with the families of the two fatalities registered as a result of the fall of the missile and stressed that, «unfortunately, everything points to the fact that it was an unfortunate accident and not an intentional act on the part of Russia».
On Thursday, the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, indicated that Kiev has received an invitation to join a special international commission investigating the circumstances of the fall of the missile, according to the Ukrinform news agency.
«Yesterday we insisted that we should be included in this commission. Indeed, our experts will go to the scene and join the investigating community,» he said, adding that no one is «one hundred percent sure» who is behind the launch.
Currently there is already a team of Polish and American investigators working in the area, as confirmed by an advisor to the president, Andrzej Duda, who has also ruled out that it was an intentional attack against Poland.
