INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Poland's military was on high alert Wednesday after a deadly missile strike on a village near the border with war-ravaged Ukraine.In
Indonesia's Bali, Western leaders held an "emergency roundtable" on the sidelines of the G20 summit, where they urged against jumping to
any conclusions about the origins of the strike.The talks came after Poland's President Andrzej Duda said there was no clear evidence of
missile was "most probably Russian-made."An AFP journalist in Przewodow said police had cordoned off the blast site with sirens wailing in
identifying who was behind the blast.Moscow's ambassador has been summoned to provide "immediate detailed explanations" and the military
had been put on heightened alert after an emergency national security council meeting, Polish authorities said."There has been a decision to
raise the state of readiness of some combat units and other uniformed services," spokesman Piotr Muller told reporters after the meeting in
Warsaw, adding that "our services are on the ground at the moment working out what happened".Biden spoke by phone with Duda, offering "full
United States support for and assistance with Poland's investigation," the White House said.The two leaders agreed to "remain in close
touch to determine appropriate next steps as the investigation proceeds," it added.NATO commitmentBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German
likely be heavily influenced by whether the incident was accidental or intentional.Biden also spoke with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg about
the incident, while ambassadors from the alliance were to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday.European Union chief Charles Michel said he
was "shocked," and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged to "remain closely coordinated in the days ahead as the
said two Russian missiles hit Poland in what he described as "a very significant escalation."Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba
rejected as a "conspiracy theory" the idea that the Poland blast may have been caused by a surface-to-air missile fired by Kyiv's
explosion came after Russian missiles hit cities across Ukraine on Tuesday, including Lviv, near the border with Poland.Zelensky said the
strikes cut power to some 10 million people, though it was later restored to 8 million of them, and also triggered automatic shutdowns at
genocide" and a "cynical slap in the face" of the G20.Moldova, which also borders Ukraine, reported power cuts because of the missiles fired
at its neighbor and called on Moscow to "stop the destruction now."'Now is the time'Zelensky told the G20 summit in Bali on Tuesday that
"now is the time" to end the war.In their final communique Wednesday, G20 members said they agreed the war hurts the global economy and
warned against the threat or use of nuclear weapons in the conflict."Most" of the world's 20 biggest economies also condemned the war in
Ukraine, the G20 nations said.Russia's Vladimir Putin had decided to skip the summit, as he deals with the fallout from a string of
embarrassing battlefield defeats in a war that his supporters believed would be over in days.White House National Security Adviser Jake
important southern city, blaming artillery fire from Kyiv's forces.They also claimed "thousands of residents" had followed their
recommendation to leave to "save themselves," saying Kyiv's forces would seek "revenge on collaborators."
