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© Thomson Reuters 2022.Biden says missile that killed two in Poland may not have come from Russia
By Marek Strzelecki BALI/WARSAW©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
116 Comments
JTC
Global Nuclear War now becomes a Reality.
Moonraker
Come on, Russia, give up now. You are not winning militarily and now nobody likes you either. How will you claw your way back to any respectability?
wallace
Putin denies.
There is no change to any global nuclear war.
NATO will respond but at this stage, it is unlikely to be a military one. There are American troops based in Poland. About 10,000.
The location hit is also a Polish power grid to Ukraine.
JTC
@wallace - good luck, I don't care regardless your Politics, but this reported action IS the trigger for WW3.
I'm relocating.
Sanjinosebleed
There is no confirmation it was Russia yet so enough with the melodrama!
theResident
I'm with @wallace: I also hope that this in fact remnants of a Russian missile that was intercepted after a day of horrific missile launches on Ukraine. Even so, the best thing now is to get China and India to start their disassociating from Russia and turning the screw on them a little.
Total over reaction @JTC - We won't even know what exactly what it was until the daylight hours, possibly longer.
You're not relocating anywhere, and if things were as on knife edge as you think, then go today. Because if it does escalate, it will be quickly and you will be part of a very large throng with the same idea.
The Avenger
Even though this is likely Russian incompetence rather than an overt attack on a NATO country by Russia, a strong response is called for. Just one more example of the criminals running Russia.
Cricky
Poland is the biggest military power in Europe at the moment and are sensitive after what happened in WW2. (Stalin and Hitler agreed to divide their country). Having missile hits from Russia not going to be received well. If they decide to actively intervene in the Ukrainian Russian conventional forces are going to be destroyed. Not sure, I hope not nuclear. A smart person would back off and Russia evacuate Ukrainian land. Drawing in other countries with accidentally missile strikes, come on it’s getting well out of hand.
Tiger
Damn these US and Russian warmongers!!
Bob Fosse
To where? The moon?
2020hindsights
JTC
Yeah, nah. Not going to happen.
Sanjinosebleed
Probably turn out it was Ukrainian missiles and the story will quickly disappear of the media
tooheysnew
do we have confirmation that it was Russia that invaded Ukraine ?
hmm, I think you’ll find it is only Russia who has invaded & committing atrocities in an independent country,
& it has only been Russia threatening the use of nuclear weapons.
englisc aspyrgend
A swift and strong response is required but not necessarily a military one. There is no evidence yet, let alone of a deliberate strike. As we have seen repeatedly, the russian military is capable of unbelievable incompetence. The best response is to greatly increase the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine and provide them with the longer range missiles for their HIMARS as a specific response to this so russia is in no doubt as to the folly of striking NATO countries. Longer range missiles will bring all of russias GLOC’s under fire control as well as the bases in Crimea, and the naval ports.
Await the factual evidence, JTC panic ye not.
Paul
Anyone that thinks it was Ukrainian missiles, should take a good look at the map...
Russia screaming it was a provocation, is beyond stupid. Just admit that missiles went wild!
JTC
Panic ? I have decided to stay put with my Wife who can't go anywhere due to her disability - I will stay beside her to the end, in the meantime, I'm making provisions for my Kids to be sent outside of the area.
Haaa Nemui
At least, that’s what the Russian media will tell you.
Joemusic1980
You’ll have to explain how the US is “Warmongering “ I don’t think it was the US’s missiles that we’re off target. In fact I don’t remember the US threatening the use of nuclear weapons.
You can’t believe everything you read on Facebook.
tooheysnew
and you couldn’t provide a link to these ‘news sources’ ?
Jimizo
What other news sources are you talking about?
Note the plural.
Sh1mon M4sada
Why rule out Belarus? Or Chechnya....
Haaa Nemui
And
They’re firing missiles all over Ukraine. It could easily have been Russian missiles with even a slight miscalculation in trajectory. I’m not saying it definitely was but trying to prove otherwise with imagined “oddities” about the reports is ridiculous.
ok1517
Once again, those oh so great Russians.
So, let me see: they fire missiles (roughly 100) again, destroying mainly civilian infrastructure.
2 of those missiles end up in Poland.
Maybe "navigation error, maybe intended.
Maybe even Ukraine shot them down and debris made it 10 kilometers across the border (which I doubt).
But whatever it is: Ukraine needs more support, a "No-Fly-Zone", even though late, more military hardware, air defence systems, tanks, etc.
There is only one way to end this aggressor's war: the total defeat of Russia, since PUTAin understands just one language - the one of military strength and superiority!
Ukraine will prevail!
Yrral
Wallace,even Mexico is under the defense shield and they are not part of NATO,but they are members of Organization of American States
Monty
If it really was a Russian missile that kills 2 people in Poland, shot on purpose or accidently, it will draw this whole thing to a very dangerous level.
tooheysnew
why do Russian missiles randomly land anywhere ?
they aren’t exactly renowned for their accuracy
we don’t, that’s why they’re investigating
Other missiles hit lviv, which is only 80km from the polish border. How does that calculate into your law of physics ?
Antiquesaving
Try remembering that on several occasions the pro world war people kept saying that the explosions on Russian ships were what Ukraine claimed "mishandling of munition".
Poland is the entry point for most of Ukraine's weapons but of course it couldn't be just like Ukraine always says about mysterious explosions on the Russian side "mishandling" or an accident.
Then we have the constant dumming on that Russia is doing things to themselves in order to "accuse Ukraine"
Now history shows a few things
"Remember the Main "
The Mukden Incident,
The Gleiwitz incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident
Now which countries did these false flags to start a war? Russia? No.
Oh did I forget vanishing WMD.
BeerDeliveryGuy
Blunders happen in war.
The US mistakenly bombed Switzerland several times during WW2.
More so, the unmotivated, poorly trained and undisciplined Russians are capable of some pretty mind boggling oopsies.
However, there are also reports that it was fragments from a missile that was intercepted.
u_s__reamer
If the missiles were fired from Belarus, Lukashenko must be made to pay a heavy price.
Sanjinosebleed
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-63593855?pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:a8049c10-2407-4b9b-a76f-9fb67c3c78f7&pinned_post_asset_id=6373db0349d9ef23494ba847&pinned_post_type=share
'Who fired the missile is unclear' - security expert
Josh Cheetham
Open Source Analyst, BBC News
"Who fired the missile is unclear," says J Andrés Gannon, a security expert at the US Council on Foreign Relations, who agrees that it may be from an S-300 system.
"We know Russia has been using the S-300 for ground attacks even though it’s an air defence system, but Ukraine also uses them for air defence against cruise missiles."
ok1517
According to the latest trustworthy news it was KH 101 cruise missiles.
They were entered in service (in Russia!!) in 2012.
Russia is the only country that has them!
Their range is upto 4.500 kilometers, accuracy +- 10 to 20 meters.
Now tell me again that it wasn't Russia!
theFu
Whenever Russia quickly denies something, that's 90% a lie and they know it. With almost all military munitions, something is left over that will point the finger to the exact weapon type, owner, and manufacturer.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-official-says-russian-missiles-hit-poland-killing-2-associated-press-2022-11-15/
Seems that it was part of a Russian missile attack. Perhaps it went off course and was an accident. Hard to say. Accidents do happen in wars, even illegal wars. Russia should compensate the families of the dead and be forthcoming about the accident, unless it was intentional to start a war with NATO.
Blacklabel
Isnt Putin still in power?
Yrral
S300 only has a range of 80 miles
rainyday
Russian aim is so bad that they can't even hit a 603,000 square kilometre target located right next to them.
PharaohChromium
Photo analyses of missile fragments show that they belong to a 48D6 motor of the 5V55-series missile of the S-300AD system. A Ukrainian missile. This was a false flag.
ok1517
Eastman,
as I understand it's not just "shrapnels" but even more that highly proves it was a KH-101!
But I agree, I'll wait to make a final decision until more facts are available from unbiased sources.
ClippetyClop
Why don't you walk us through what you are suggesting and how it fits in to these missile strikes?
wallace
JTC
Where ya going? The moon?
Blacklabel
it would support a false flag by an unknown entity to make the newly mentioned peace process untenable.
Look at what Russia did! we cant have peace now like we were considering because of that!
right?
Rodney
I watch about 30 different news sites every day. Where exactly is the access to Russian media apart from RT which is banned in may western countries for being impartial?
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
I’m mostly interested that they’re repeatedly trying to sell such small “provocations” as a potential casus belli. I mean, do they really think anyone other than the Boomers gives one hair on an airborne rodent’s posterior about NATO or its oft-misrepresented Article 5, which commits absolutely no one to doing anything.
The funniest part is that the British are vowing “WE WILL DEFEND POLAND”.
They seem to have forgotten that the last time they promised to 'defend' Poland, the USSR ended up with all of Poland, all of Eastern Europe, and most of Central Europe.
Blacklabel
based on this new attack- wouldnt Democrats now HAVE to continue funding the war even if they dont get their cut anymore?
An attack on Poland would require that continued funding plus open up new avenues of funding through NATO.
So thats why Ukraine or something/someone associated with them continuing to get funding even without the money laundering aspect would do this.
Why would Russia do this? whats in it for them to attack Poland?
Desert Tortoise
Huh? Poland's land forces number about 63,000, smaller than the German Army. Turkish land forces number 260,000, NATOs largest land army aside from the US Army. French land forces number 118,600. The British Army numbers about 80,000. That of Spain about 75,000. Poland's Navy is tiny, three older frigates and some old Soviet era diesel subs. Their air force has 89 combat jets, of which 41 are old Soviet models. France has 210 modern combat jets in their Air Force and another 40 Rafales in their navy. Poland is far from the biggest military power in Europe. If you look outside NATO, Finland can field a 240,000 strong army.
stormcrow
Probably a stupid & careless Russian mistake, like so many before. However, if it was done deliberately to further escalate Putin’s tragic error, then he must be near the end of his political rope.
Desert Tortoise
Sigh. Russia has been firing S-300s at ground targets in Ukraine for some months now. S-300 is a late 1970s air defense missile. They are notably inaccurate when used as a surface to surface missile.
In addition to stocks Ukraine started the war with, Ukraine has received S-300s from other eastern European NATO members like Slovakia and surprisingly the US, which apparently has a stockpile of them acquired from Belarus in 1990 and other unnamed nations. Trying to say that this or that S-300 is something that was in the Ukrainian stockpile is, well, not fully informed.
wallace
Were they stray missiles or intentionally?
Serious escalation from Putin.
The Russian troops have failed to impress. Putin now busing in short-trained civilians and prisoners.
Desert Tortoise
Number one I would not get too excited unless Russian missiles landing inside the territory of NATO nations happens again.
Number two, any NATO response will be conventional and will likely deprive Russia of use of its nuclear weapons very early in the response. This is the raison d'etre for the B-2 and F-35.
Haaa Nemui
@Eastman - for once I actually agree with you on this. It’s too early to lay blame for this individual event.
Peter14
JTCToday 06:52 am JST
Only when the first Nuclear weapon is detonated. That has not happened and is not likely at this point.
Fragments leave debris but the picture shows a bomb crater from an explosion on detonation when the missile hit the ground.
And if investigations show they were Russian missiles what then? Russia will continue to deny as it always does. Russia never admits to mistakes or errors.
Desert Tortoise
My guess is that if the missile is confirmed to have been fired by the Russians (there will be other intelligence aside from material collected at the site from satellites, signals intelligence and the like we most likely will never be privy to) the NATO response might be to flood Ukraine with air defense missile systems including possible some longer range systems like SAMP/T and dedicated ballistic missile defense systems Patriot PAC-3. The US can also refurbish HAWK systems it has in storage. That is a lot better than going to war with Russia and gets the job done.
William Round
Bound to happen, Russian have been anything but precise in their attacks, sooner or later they would involve Poland, and of course deny they did.
cleo
It’s more than likely yet another instance of Ruzzian less-than-precise targeting. It could be a missile that went off course after being intercepted by Ukrainian defenses.
It’s immaterial. If Putler hadn’t started an illegal, unjustified war no one would be firing missiles anywhere.
This has to stop now.
Nobody wants WWIII, but hopefully NATO will at least announce a strict no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Hardly likely to happen, but a special ops operation in Moscow to purge it of its gremlins would be a treat.
TokyoLiving
It fits among the possibilities, but the anti-Russian brigade of whiners does not accept it.. lol..
theResident
Far more concerning now is the fate of Millions of Ukrainians facing a winter of no electricity and water after the other 100 missiles found the right targets. Barbaric.
Monty
Even the missile explodes in Poland on accident, shoot by the Russians or the Ukranian, we should not forget that 2 people died from that.
And if Russia wouldn't have started their massmurdering war, there were never been any missile shot from anywhere.
Blacklabel
so all the people who said its definitely IS Russia arent making assumptions?
Just the people who say its NOT Russia are the assumers?
ClippetyClop
Well your assumption is that Ukraine did it because of Dems etc.
An assumption bereft of all logic or fact. But then again you still believe in stolen elections, so we shouldn't be surprised.
rainyday
Sensible people are admitting that we don't know who fired the missile and we'll have to wait until actual evidence is examined to draw a conclusion. Most likely scenarios seem to be either an errant Russian missile, or an errant Ukrainian air defence missile. These both seem plausible to me based on what limited facts we do know.
Of course there are idiots out there spewing nonsense about this being some kind Dem false flag conspiracy. THOSE people are making some wild assumptions.
Sven Asai
Well, we all know and already named it what it is , a real war, not only a paper and pen limited military operation. Therefore , if so many parties actively meddle in, missiles from Russia also have to be expected incoming on all verbally supporting countries and even more those delivering equipment or providing other support for their enemy, which Poland surely is one of. It’s maybe also a test balloon to see how NATO reacts, according to the treaty paragraphs or according to nothing.
Haaa Nemui
So now, even though it still parrots Russian narrative, RT is no longer acceptable to you? Odd. And here in Japan we still have access to it. Why you keep bringing up the countries that have banned it I’ll never know. Don’t forget, Russian journalists are afraid to speak out against the war (they weren’t even allowed to call it a war at the start. I don’t know if that has changed) for fear of breaking Russian law.
Raw Beer
I hope they will be more transparent with the results of their investigation than they were with the Nord Stream pipelines one. So far, this very much reminds me of the gas attacks in Syria...
PharaohChromium
Biden now saying that missile was "unlikely to have been fired from Russia". Yet all the normies are here downvoting anyone who says otherwise.
theResident
? @Raw Beer. Why the '.....'' after your post. What are you trying to imply?
Mr Kipling
Notice all the "likely", "probably" , "seems to be" comments from the west...
Its almost as though they know its a Ukrainian surface to air missile but want to pin the blame on Russia.... Just like the missile in Bucha train station. That soon went quite when the serial numbers matched those fired by Ukraine into Dombas.
Raw Beer
I often do that when something is self-explanatory, or doesn't need explanation (I like being concise). But it seems that for some people...
venze
Biden says missile that killed two in Poland may not have come from Russia:
He assumes from the lines of trajectory, the missile might not be fired from Russia.
If he can see that, why not those Poland & NATO experts?
At least, tired Biden talks sense, a flash moment of clarity if not enlightenment..
Baradzed
No matter who’s missile it was, Russian or Ukrainian anti-air missile, the responsibility lies solely on Russia. Ukrainians don’t fire anti-air missiles just for fun without a necessary reason.
theResident
yeah, Go on @Raw Beer - Finish what you want to say.
itsonlyrocknroll
Call for calm. let the experts complete there analysis.
Biden should know better that to stoke presupposition, did they or didn't they?
A question that does not need to be answered by the best guess.
"I don't want to say that until we completely investigate"*Simple as that.....Nuff said
But Biden was bounced to prevaricate.
wallace
Change of post.
FtGuy2017
I am questioning the ethic here to post news without verifying the fact, then totally replace it with something else without any mention.
Sven Asai
What are those pieces of non-information everywhere? Ok, you Pokerfaces out there, raise and call, if the estimated trajectory doesn’t suggest the missile was from Russian area or forces, then which area or country origin of the missile that hit Poland does it suggest instead?
Haaa Nemui
Latest update actually points to a Ukrainian rocket fired in defense at a Russian rocket.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300739883/missile-fired-into-poland-came-from-ukrainian-forces-first-assesment-finds
Raw Beer
Exactly, the US certainly knows where these missiles were fired from. Telling that they haven't provided further details. Probably figuring out how to spin this or hoping it just goes away (like Nord Stream).
ok1517
Eastman,
no, he said that probably it wasn't fired from RuSSian area.
Ever heard of Tu-160 Blackjack, Tu-22M3/5 Backfire C, Tu-95MS16 Bear-H, and Su-27IB?
That's the aircrafts RuSSia uses to fire off cruise missiles.
So, once in the air, of course it wouldn't be RuSSia's land!
But let us wait and see, too early to make final comments.
Haaa Nemui
Right after I posted a link suggesting who is believed to be responsible.
wallace
My dollar bet is on the Ruskies.
wallace
Ukraine are not fighting near the Polish border.
RichardPearce
Wallace, the weapons that the US is smuggling in to prop up Zelensky's regime in its war against the population of the Ukrainian agricultural and industrial heartland go through exactly these sorts of places, so your 'objection' about the lack of Zelensky's forces firing from anywhere near there is disingenuous.
Blacklabel
whats that smell? Another White House walk back?
does anyone speak Biden to translate what he is implying?
cleo
UA forces shoot in defence at missiles launched by Ruzzian aggressors, one missile missed its target, came down across the border and killed two civilians
There, fixed that for you.
Doesn't stop it being Ruzzia's fault.
If I'm beating the pulp out of you and in an attempt to avoid yet another blow your fist hits an innocent bystander, surely it's the one doing the pulping that's at fault, not the one trying to stop the punches.
Ruzzia started the fight. Everything bad that happens as a result is ruzzia's fault.
Fredrik
Biden don't want to defend Ukraine or Poland, and has decided the missile was not sent from Russia. It doesn't matter who really fired that missile. Case closed!
Lord Dartmouth
The photos of the missile fragments have now been analysed and it is clear that they belong to the 48D6 motor of the 5V55-series missile of the S-300 AD system- a Ukrainian one.
There will be some very red faces in the media and the Polish foreign ministry in particular, which called for stiff measures against the perpetrator.
ClippetyClop
Interesting plot development. The SMO has gone from being about Nazis, to Nato, to a few other things I forget, to now being Ukraine simply invading itself. The Russians might as well get out if this is the case, leave them too it and save a few rubles / thousands of Russian lives.
wallace
Poland has taken in more than two million Ukrainian refugees. The hit location is where Poland supplies power to Ukraine. Until there is hard evidence I still think they are Russian missiles.
cleo
If it's confirmed, I'm sure he will. At the very least. And they're Poles, not poles.
Don't be ridiculous. UA forces have not 'attacked NATO member' by anything. They tried to defend themselves against a dirty, despicable, barbaric aggressor intent on ruining the lives of millions of people just to tickle the ego of a slavic house elf, and something went wrong. Damn soviet-made rubbish munitions.
Ruzzia had and has no reason to attack Ukraine, didn't stop them doing it.
They clearly didn't understand the consequences of attacking Ukraine back in February. They thought they'd be greeting with hugs and flowers and kisses, and be having a jolly old victory parade through the streets of Kyiv come March.
The perpetrator is Ruzzia. Ruzzia can stop missiles landing anywhere just by going home.
wallace
Putin is responsible for firing thousands of his missiles at civilian targets and is the aggressor and invader. Putin has the power to end it.
Cards fan
Oh, you mean there's more information coming out about this breaking story? Shocking!
What Biden said was pretty easy to understand. Not sure what the confusion is.
Cards fan
lol And where were you when Russia was supplying separatists in Eastern Ukraine? I suppose we should just look the other way?
No, Russian children didn't die in Ukraine. Ukrainian children did.
So, does any of this justify Russia's imperialist land grab? No one is buying the pro-invasion, pro-invasion apologia.
Nemo
Biden is being cautious and getting his facts straight prior to getting allies on side for any actions NATO might take.
This is exactly what I would want in a leader during a crisis.
Not some know-nothing blow-hard either rushing to action or making excuses for looking past aggression.
We all know what the great Cheeto-Jesus would do. We can thank whatever Diety we choose to pray to that he is nowhere near the reigns of power at the present time.
Cards fan
Donbass is in Ukraine. Donbass is part of Ukraine. If you were born in Donbass, or any other part of Ukraine, you are Ukrainian by birth. Frankly, one's citizenship isn't determined by your "feelings." And frankly, most of the residents of Dombass aren't even Russian. Why does Russia, and the separatists they back get to force the majority of people there to join Russia?
lol Sorry mate, your pro-imperialist, pro-invasion apologia is comical. The consequences, however, not so much.
tooheysnew
@gurzuf (if that’s your real name)
No one wakes up one morning and decides to separate their city from the country - Unless an ‘external force‘ was involved. The same ‘external force‘ (RU) that created the separatist region in Transnistria within Moldova; and, the separatist region in South Ossetia within Georgia.
(you see a pattern here ?)
Instead, the Ukrainians took the blame by the Russians for 8 long years in relation to the murders of Ukrainian children and civilians in the Donbas since 2014, even though Igor had already publicly admitted to starting the proxy war in Donbas while using civilians as human shields and exposing them to shelling in 2014.
Meet the man sent by Putin who started it all and led the Proxy War between Russia and Ukraine within the Donbas in 2014 to make it look as if the ‘civil war‘ started within Ukraine - Igor Girkin
The live interview with Igor himself where he admitted to using civilians in Donbas as human shields was given on 24 May 2019 and can, at present, still be found here (https://youtube.com/watch?v=vn-ztUNkGWk&t=331s
)
Blacklabel
Ukrainian missiles.
Cards fan
Yes, black, they were definitely Ukrainian missiles. I guess the Ukraine military intelligence forgot which way Russia is. Brilliant.