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former9thward

(32,064 posts)
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 07:49 PM Nov 2022

'That's not the evidence': Ukraine clashes with its allies over Poland blast in a rare public split

LONDON — In a rare display of public discord, Ukraine and its Western backers are openly clashing over who launched the missile that killed two civilians in Poland, a NATO member.

It may be the most significant rift so far between Ukraine and its supporters, including the United States, since Russia invaded and comes at a crucial moment as winter approaches with the Kremlin's forces in retreat.

Although the U.S. and its allies have called the incident an unfortunate accident, the starkly divergent takes on what likely took place threaten to undermine the united front that has helped Kyiv preserve staunch military and diplomatic support from the West throughout the nearly nine-month war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisted “it was not our missile” that struck Polish farmland, a harrowing incident that raised the specter of NATO and its nuclear-armed members being dragged directly into the Kremlin’s war.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-allies-clash-poland-blast-biden-evidence-putin-war-rcna57631

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'That's not the evidence': Ukraine clashes with its allies over Poland blast in a rare public split (Original Post) former9thward Nov 2022 OP
This isn't exactly Quantum Physics... WarGamer Nov 2022 #1
Does it matter whose missile it was? thomski64 Nov 2022 #2
Pootler is to blame either way, goddammit. The Unmitigated Gall Nov 2022 #3

WarGamer

(12,463 posts)
1. This isn't exactly Quantum Physics...
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 07:55 PM
Nov 2022

S300 near Lviv fired and overshoots it's target, landing in Poland.

Of course it's a UKR missile. And when they say "It's not our rocket" they mean it was built in Russia, in like 1981 lol... then shipped to UKR.

thomski64

(455 posts)
2. Does it matter whose missile it was?
Thu Nov 17, 2022, 08:02 PM
Nov 2022

.. a stray missile was the Direct result
of Putin's genocidal war crime attacks on civilians
Death to orcs

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