Ever-since war in Ukraine began, for the first-time missile hit Poland, a NATO nation while Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky made frantic bids of putting the blame on Russia. Meanwhile, Russian Ministry of Defense stated that footage from the site showed “elements of a missile from an S-300 air defense system used by the Air Force Of Ukraine”.
“This is getting ridiculous,” the official said. “The Ukrainians are destroying our confidence and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the missile”, the source reportedly said.
The comments come in response to President Vladimir Zelensky claiming that Ukraine had nothing to do with the missile that struck Przewodow, Poland, insisting that it was Russia that launched the weapon.
Zelensky has insisted that Ukrainian investigators be given access to the crash site, stating that if it turns out that it was indeed a Ukrainian rocket then Kiev would have to apologize. “but, sorry, first I want an investigation, access, the data you have – we want to have this”, Zelensky said, addressing his Western partners.
NATO, the US and Poland have stated that there is no evidence to suggest Russia’s direct involvement in the incident. Polish President Andrzej Duda has indicated that the projectile was likely a Ukrainian air defense missile – an opinion that was seconded by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Defense secretary Lloyd Austin.
Moscow, meanwhile, has condemned efforts to paint it as the perpetrator, saying such statements could only be seen as an attempt to trigger a direct clash between Russia and NATO.
After several media outlets as well as Ukrainian and Polish officials initially blamed Russia for the attack, Moscow’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, stated that if it had not been for the evidence in the form of photos from the scene, “all facts would have been concealed from the public, and Russia would have been proclaimed the guilty side”.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also stated that the initial claims made by Kiev and other Western officials were “yet another hysterical, rabidly Russophobic reaction that was not based on any real information”.
US President Joe Biden did not speak to his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky about the missile incident in Poland, CNN reported, citing multiple anonymous sources. Instead, his national security adviser Jake Sullivan phoned Zelensky’s office, urging Ukrainian officials to “tread more carefully”, after Kiev accused Moscow of striking the village of Przewodow and killing two civilians.
Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken were in Bali, Indonesia for the G20 summit when aides woke them up in the middle of the night with news of the missile incident.
Joe Biden was on the phone with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda by 5:30am local time, with Blinken and Sullivan joining the call later. Between the information coming from Poland and US “satellite-based intelligence”, it became clear that the missile “appeared to have been launched by Ukraine”.
Zelensky had already accused Russia, however, describing it as an attack on NATO and demanding a response. Sullivan then “quickly called Zelensky’s office” and “urged officials to tread more carefully with how they were speaking about the incident”, according to sources familiar with the call.
Though Associated Press (AP) had cited an anonymous US official to say the missile had been Russian – which the agency later retracted – Biden himself came out to say it was not. Pentagon spokesman General Patrick Ryder also told reports that the US military had no information that could corroborate Kiev’s claims.
General Mark Milley, who chairs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meanwhile, called his counterparts in Poland and Ukraine and also tried reaching Russia’s chief of the General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov.
Another call that did not happen was between Biden and Zelensky, despite the Ukrainian leader’s repeated requests, according to a source familiar with the matter. Biden had spoken with Duda, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and leaders at the G20, but “had still not spoken directly with Zelensky”, CNN claimed.
The Przewodow incident has “created some cracks in the West’s alliance with Ukraine”, according to the outlet. Polish officials were described as “frustrated” by Zelensky continuing to insist the missile had not been Ukrainian, even after both Warsaw and Washington had publicly said otherwise.
Evidence gathered by Poland, the US, and NATO suggests that it was a Ukrainian missile that killed two people on Polish territory not far from Ukraine’s border, the head of the country’s National Security Bureau (BBN), Jacek Siewiera, told the local RMF FM radio broadcaster.
Earlier, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the missile was likely a Ukrainian one. Washington, meanwhile, admitted it had no evidence that would contradict Duda’s assessment, while Kiev rushed to blame the incident on Moscow.
“All the evidence that has been collected on the NATO, American and our sides indicates that we are dealing with an S-300 missile launched by the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense,” Siewiera said, without offering details on the information gathered by investigators. According to the BBN chief, the Polish Prosecutor’s Office is now leading the probe into the incident.
Warsaw would not object to Ukrainian “observers” joining the investigation, Siewiera said, adding that the Polish president in particular “sees no obstacles” for this if all legal requirements are met.
Zelensky insisted the missile was Russian and backtracked on this claim only after it was disputed by US President Joe Biden. Later, Zelensky maintained that no one can know for sure whose missile killed the two Poles.
The senior aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Mikhail Podolyak, has hailed the recent missile strike in Poland as a good way of reminding NATO members that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine will inevitably spillover to the territories of other nations. In an interview published on the “FREEДОМ” (Freedom) YouTube channel, Podolyak stated that the incident, which resulted in the death of two civilians, was a “good story”.
He added that it would enable NATO states to “develop a tougher attitude in terms of protecting their territories”.
Zelensky a damn liar
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could be “lying on purpose to get us into a war,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson declared.
Zelensky’s refusal to admit that a Ukrainian missile caused a fatal explosion in Poland makes him “not worth supporting”, Carlson suggested.
Zelensky “was commanding the US to lead the Third World War immediately” after the blast, Carlson told his viewers. “The only problem is that it was completely and utterly wrong”.
In my previous articles I have repeatedly said, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky is a liar, a con-artist and a fraud. Knowing these fact, Joe Biden has on purpose stepped into war against Russia by sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, majority of which had already slipped into the grips of neo-Nazis and even ended in black market. Vladimir Zelensky and his men are making tons of money from this war, and now he wants to somehow push the United States and NATO towards a world war.
As Republicans already have gained majority in the Congress, before they give approval to Biden’s fresh requisition of US$37 billion for Ukraine, they first need to carefully evaluate and scrutinize the earlier US$54 billion that Joe Biden already has sent to Ukraine. Cashing US and NATO sympathy, Vladimir Zelensky is now almost dictating the Western nations towards a World War 3. If good sense shall prevail in the minds of Western policymakers, they now need to immediately adopt effective plans to oust Vladimir Zelensky and his neo-Nazi cohorts and help in bringing peace in Ukraine.
