US Urges Ukraine to Exercise Caution in Statements: What the Media is Reporting

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has privately urged Kyiv to be more cautious regarding statements about the incident in Poland after President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of its involvement, CNN reports citing sources familiar with the matter, as RIA Novosti notes.

“About an hour after the incident became known, Volodymyr Zelensky stated in an evening video address that 'Russian missiles had struck Poland.' Sullivan quickly called Zelensky's office afterward and urged officials to be more careful in how they comment on the incident,” the channel's report states.

It is recalled that on the evening of November 15, a missile fell within Polish territory near the border with Ukraine. Two people were killed. Initially, Warsaw announced that they were of Russian manufacture and that the country was convening a NATO council.

However, on Wednesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda considered it highly probable that the missiles belonged to Ukraine. According to Russian Ministry of Defense data on that Tuesday, there were no strikes on targets near the Ukraine-Poland border, and some of the published photos of debris have no connection to Russian weapons. The ministry stated that all claims from Polish media regarding the supposed fall of “Russian” missiles are a deliberate provocation aimed at escalation.

On Wednesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense indicated that the photos published from the incident site in Poland clearly show debris from a Ukrainian S-300 air defense system missile.