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From left to right: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Joe Biden, Prime British Minister Rishi Sunak, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and European Council President Charles Michel, meeting in Bali on November 16, 2022. — AFP Refresh Show highlights only
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- Poland has placed Tuesday his army on heightened alert after being hit by what she described as a “Russian-made projectile”, which left two people dead. During the night, the Polish president raised that there was only At this stage there is no “equivocal proof” on who fired the shot.
- Paris, London, Washington and Berlin ensured Warsaw for their support. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his part expressed its “condolences for the deaths of Polish citizens who were victims of Russian missile terror.
- Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine, is a member of the NATO and some 10,000 US troops are in the country. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg is due to hold an “emergency meeting” with Alliance Ambassadors.
- For its part, Moscow has qualified accusations of Russian firing on Polish soil of “provocations” “with the aim of creating an escalation of the situation” “No strikes were made. conducted on targets close to the Ukrainian-Polish border,” the Russian Defense Ministry.
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04:34: France supports Poland
“ Poland can count on the support of France and our availability. to support ongoing investigations, » Emmanuel Macron after speaking overnight with the Polish Prime Minister.
Je me suis entretenu avec le Premier ministre Mateusz Morawiecki pour lui dire notre solidarité. La Pologne peut compter sur le soutien de la France et notre disponibilité pour appuyer les enquêtes en cours.
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron)
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04:26: NATO’s Article 5 at stake
Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine, is a member of NATO and some 10,000 US military personnel are in the country. Article 5 of the Treaty of the Atlantic Alliance affirms that if a Member State is the victim of an armed attack, the others will consider this act of violence as an armed attack directed against all the members and will take the measures deemed necessary. are needed to come to the aid of the country under attack.
04:20: Joe Biden telephoned to NATO Secretary General 04:08: Poland calls on its people to “calm”
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki launched a call for calm, to the aftermath of the explosion of a “russian-made projectile” in the southeast of the country.
“”I call on all Poles to keep calm in the face of this tragedy. Let’s be considerate. Let’s not be manipulated. We must exercise restraint and caution,” to following an emergency cabinet meeting.
03:59: Berlin in solidarity with Warsaw
Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed solidarity with Polish President Andrzej Duda. of Germany, who “stands alongside” of its Polish NATO partner. “The Chancellor has just phoned Polish President Duda and told him that his condolences. Poland will closely investigate the circumstances of the incident in which two citizens were killed. killed last night,” Spokesman for Olaf Scholz.
03:57: For UN chief, it is “essential to avoid an escalation of the war in Ukraine” /strong>
03:40: For Biden, the missile was not fired from Russia
Joe Biden judged Wednesday “ unlikely” that the missile was launched from Russia, assuring that Washington and its allies intend to determine “exactly” what had happened before deciding on a reaction.
🔴Important, Joe Biden dit qu’il semble «improbable que (le missile) ait été tiré depuis la Russie», évoquant sa trajectoire et des «informations préliminaires».
(c’était après la réunion au G20) pic.twitter.com/hZx1xlCS8N— Philippe Berry (@ptiberry)
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03:34: The phone rings at 03:34. Kyiv and Warsaw
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced spoke with Polish foreign ministers Zbigniew Rau and Ukrainian Dmytro Kouleba after the fall of the missile in Poland.
“We are committed to stay closely coordinated in the days to come as the investigation progresses and we determine appropriate next steps,” he tweeted.
03:15 am: G7 emergency meeting
The leaders of the G7 and several of their allies are currently meeting urgently in Indonesia. The heads of state or government of the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada and Japan have begun their meeting shortly before 9 a.m. (2 a.m. in Paris) on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Paris. bali. The Spanish, Dutch and European Union leaders are also present.
02:50 am: Welcome to this new Live
Hello to; all and to all. The international situation is particularly tense after a shooting in Poland which killed two people. The editorial staff of 20 Minutes is therefore mobilized, even at night, to give you the latest information on the conflict. The firing came on the evening of a day marked by an intense Russian bombing campaign on Ukrainian infrastructure, described by President Zelensky as “a slap in the face of the G20” currently meeting in the framework of a summit at bali. Poland has placed Tuesday his army on heightened alert after being hit by what she described as a “Russian-made projectile”. During the night, the Polish president raised that there was only At this stage there is no “equivocal proof” on who fired the shot.