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 who
was "most probably Russian-made."An AFP journalist in Przewodow said police had cordoned off the blast site with sirens wailing in the
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
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 Chancellor Olaf
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
Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged to "remain closely coordinated in the days ahead as the investigation proceeds and we determine
what he described as "a very significant escalation."Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba rejected as a "conspiracy theory" the idea
reports that it was to blame as a "provocation" intended to escalate tensions.The 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
at energy facilities across the country, condemning the strikes as an "act of 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
withdrawal from the regional capital of the southern Kherson region, allowing Ukraine's forces to re-enter the city.Tuesday's missile
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."
