Cause of explosion still unclear, US authorities say
The White House and the US Department of Defence said they could not confirm the information on the explosion being caused by stray Russian missiles.
The Pentagon was said to be “reviewing” press reports that two Russian missiles “struck a location in Poland or on the border with Ukraine,” a Pentagon official said Tuesday.
“We have no evidence at this point to confirm this information and we are looking into it further,” he added.
Local authorities have asked the media not to jump to conclusions and wait for official confirmation from the Polish government.
Przewodów, a village of 710 residents in eastern Poland, is situated some 130 kilometres southeast of the regional capital Lublin and 7 kilometres from Ukraine.
Russia was pounding cities across Ukraine with missiles on Tuesday in attacks that Kyiv said were the heaviest wave of missile strikes in nearly nine months of the war.
