Russia-Ukraine war live: two people killed after Russian missiles cross into Poland, says US intelligence official

 

Poland PM convenes urgent national security meeting as a senior US intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into Nato member Poland

Léonie Chao-Fong (now); Martin Belam and Samantha Lock (earlier)

Müller did not mention what the committee was due to discuss but local media reported that the meeting may be related to a reported explosion on the Polish border with Ukraine.

Russia shelled cities and energy facilities across Ukraine on Tuesday, including Lviv, a city in the west of the country close to Poland.

Two people have been killed in an explosion in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, according to local firefighters.

Reuters has cited Lukasz Kucy, an officer on duty at a nearby firefighters’ post, as saying:

Firefighters are on the spot, it’s not clear what has happened.

It was reported earlier that two stray missiles hit Przewodow, killing two people.

From the New York Times

A deadly explosion took place Tuesday at a grain processing facility in Poland near the border with Ukraine, according to Polish media outlets, and top government officials called an emergency meeting.

The cause of the explosion in the village of Przewodow, about four miles north of the Ukrainian border, was not immediately clear. A Polish radio station reported that two people were killed.

At a Pentagon briefing, Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder said the Defense Department was aware of media reports saying that two Russian missiles had landed in Poland, but said U.S. defense officials had no corroborating information.

Poland’s prime minister and president convened a meeting of the National Security Council in response to a “crisis situation,” a government spokesman, Piotr Mueller, told reporters.

The explosions came on the same day that Russia launched a widespread missile attack on Ukraine, with roughly 100 missiles that were aimed primarily at the country’s electrical infrastructure. Ukrainian officials said the country’s air defense systems shot down 70 of the incoming missiles.