Will support Poland in missile attack probe: Biden after emergency meet

TIL Desk/World/Washington/United States President Joe Biden has said that Washington will support Poland’s investigation into the explosion that took place near the Poland-Ukrainian border. Biden made the remarks after an ’emergency meeting’ convened by Biden of North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and G7 leaders on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

The US President said that he briefed leaders about his conversation with Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The leaders held an emergency meeting after an explosion took place near the Poland-Ukraine border that killed two people. NATO and G7 leaders also released a statement after the emergency meeting in which they condemned Russia’s ‘barbaric missile attacks’ on Ukraine.

Addressing reporters after the meeting, Biden said that the leaders agreed to support Poland’s investigation and asserted that he will ‘make sure’ to find out what exactly happened. He said that they will determine the next step after they conduct the investigation and stressed that there was ‘total unanimity’ among the leaders in the meeting. “We agreed to support Poland’s investigation into the explosion in rural Poland near the Ukrainian border, and I’m going to make sure we figure out exactly what happened,” Biden told reporters.