Poland says the missile strike on its land appears to be an accident by Ukraine

Poland's president said Wednesday that it appears a missile that landed just inside the country's border was from Ukraine in what he called an "unfortunate accident."

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"We have no evidence at the moment that it was a rocket launched by Russian forces," President Andrzej Duda said.

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"However, there are many indications that it was a missile that was used by Ukraine's anti-missile defense."

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Two Polish citizens were killed Tuesday when the missile came crashing down in a rural village in eastern Poland,

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just a few miles from the western border of Ukraine.

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This happened amid a Russian barrage of missiles fired at cities across Ukraine, with Ukraine responding with its air defense systems.

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NATO members discussed the issue in Brussels, and the secretary general of alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said a preliminary analysis pointed to a Ukrainian air defense missile that had been fired at an incoming Russian missile.

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