U.S. President Joe Biden said a rocket that struck a village in Poland near the Ukraine border was unlikely to have been fired from Russia, comments that may limit the risk of a major escalation in tensions over the incident.
Poland said Tuesday that a Russian-made rocket killed two people when it landed about 4 miles from the frontier with Ukraine. It happened on the same day that Russian forces fired another barrage of missiles targeting Ukrainian energy and other infrastructure.
Asked if the rocket had been fired from Russia, Biden told reporters in Bali, where he is attending the Group of 20 summit, that “there is preliminary information that contests that.” Given the trajectory of the rocket it was unlikely it was fired from Russia, he added, “but we’ll see.”
