INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia on Wednesday blamed Ukraine for a blast on Polish territory that killed two people and launched a wave of international concern the
previous day.The Defense Ministry in Moscow said that the missile which landed in the village of Przewodow near the Ukrainian border was
struck down by Ukraine's air defenses."Photographs of the wreckage..
were unequivocally identified by Russian military experts as fragments of a guided anti-aircraft missile of a Ukrainian S-300 air defense
located at least 35 kilometers away from the Ukraine-Poland border, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a daily briefing.The
Dmitry Peskov said that Poland had all the facts showing that the missile debris belonged to an S-300 missile system, which he said has
missile that fell into Poland was a Ukrainian air-defense missile.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba earlier rejected as a "conspiracy
theory" the idea that it may have been a Ukrainian missile.The missile fell on Polish territory amid a Russian aerial assault on Ukraine on
that one or two missiles landed on a grain elevator in Przewodow some 20 kilometers from the Poland-Ukraine border, killing two
between NATO and Russia.Poland has placed its military on high alert in response to the strike.Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday
said it was "very likely" that the deadly missile that struck a Polish border village was from Ukraine's air defense."Absolutely nothing
indicates that this was an intentional attack on Poland..
It's very likely that it was a rocket used in anti-missile defense, meaning that it was used by Ukraine's defense forces," he told
reporters.AFP contributed reporting.
