A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.
Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller did not immediately confirm the information, but said top leaders were holding an emergency meeting due to a “crisis situation.”
Polish media reported that two people died Tuesday afternoon after a projectile struck an area where grain was drying in Przewodów, a Polish village near the border with Ukraine.
[If this was a mistake, it’s a pretty big one. Przewodów is a 30-mile drive from Chervonograd in Ukraine, which would be the only imaginable target for Russian missiles in the area. Przewodów itself doesn’t appear to hold any strategic or tactical value for a Russian first strike on NATO, either. This has to be an act of incompetence, but it’s a good demonstration of what can happen in this kind of a conflict on NATO’s borders. — Ed]
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