The thirty ambassadors of the NATO countries in Brussels met this Wednesday, November 16, urgently, to discuss the aftermath of the explosion which occurred late Tuesday afternoon in a Polish village bordering Ukraine, Przewodów . They have heard the first reports provided by Poland and now caution prevails. After the meetings of the Polish Security Council and the Hungarian Defense Council on Wednesday evening, after calls from the Baltic countries for rapid action by NATO, the time has come for de-escalation.
With our correspondent in Brussels, Pierre Benazet
Poland immediately calmed things down in NATO, as Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki had announced, since it did not invoke Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which provides for consultations in case of threat to the security of a country, its political independence or its territorial integrity.
For the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, there is no indication that the explosion that occurred was a deliberate attack and no indication either that Russia is preparing an attack against NATO.
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It was probably a Ukrainian anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile that hit the village of Przewodów, but “ it’s not Ukraine’s fault “, since it defends itself against Russian aggression, underlines Jens Stoltenberg for whom the explosion occurred when Russia unleashed a massive wave of strikes.
We are therefore in the de-escalation. The allies, however, showed their solidarity with Warsaw. NATO wants to mobilize additional anti-aircraft defense weapons on its eastern border, and Germany, for example, offers Poland the deployment of combat aircraft patrols on its borders with Ukraine and Russia.
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