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\nThe landing of a Ukrainian air defense missile in Poland was an accident, Polish President Andrzej Duda said in a speech in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship on Friday.
\n\u201cIt most likely was an accident,\u201d he said, adding the missile fell 6 kilometers from the border. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t intercepted. That\u2019s the truth. Not a single country in the world has a defense system that can protect the entire territory, especially at such a short distance from the border,\u201d he said.
\nA missile crashed in the village of Przewodow in eastern Poland\u2019s Lublin Voivodeship close to the border with Ukraine on November 15, killing two people. Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday the missile was part of the Ukrainian air defense system.
\nThe US State Department said the US has full confidence in the accuracy of conclusions made by Poland. The Russian Foreign Ministry called statements by Kiev with respect to the incident a \u201cgross provocation.\u201d According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the missile was fired by a Ukrainian S-300 air defense system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WARSAW The landing of a Ukrainian air defense missile in Poland was an accident, Polish President Andrzej Duda said in a speech in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship on Friday. \u201cIt most likely was an accident,\u201d he said, adding the missile fell 6 kilometers from the border. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t intercepted. That\u2019s the truth. Not a single country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n