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A elder U.S. quality authoritative says Russian missiles crossed into NATO subordinate Poland, sidesplitting 2 people.
Polish authorities spokesperson Piotr Mueller did not instantly corroborate the information, but said apical leaders were holding an exigency gathering owed to a "crisis situation."
Polish media reported that 2 radical died Tuesday day aft a projectile struck an country wherever atom was drying successful Przewodów, a Polish colony adjacent the borderline with Ukraine.
Pentagon property caput Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said helium had nary accusation close now.
"We are alert of the property reports alleging that 2 Russian missiles person struck a determination wrong Poland adjacent the Ukraine border," Ryder told reporters astatine the Defense Department Tuesday. "I tin archer you that we don't person immoderate accusation astatine this clip to corroborate those reports and are looking into it further."
National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson was besides incapable to corroborate the reports but said successful a statement that the U.S. is "working with the Polish authorities to stitchery much information," and "will find what happened and what the due adjacent steps would be." NATO is besides coordinating with Poland, according to a spokesperson.
Ukraine Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya told CBS News that helium expects the incidental to beryllium discussed astatine a antecedently scheduled U.N. Security Council gathering connected Ukraine Wednesday.
Russia pounded Ukraine's vigor facilities Tuesday with its biggest barrage of missiles yet, striking targets crossed the state and causing wide blackouts.
A defiant Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy shook his fist and declared, "We volition past everything."
The Russian Defense Ministry denied work for the strikes. "No strikes were made against targets adjacent the Ukrainian-Polish authorities borderline by Russian means of destruction," it said successful a statement.
Zelenskyy said Russia had fired astatine slightest 85 missiles, "most of them astatine our vigor infrastructure," and unopen down powerfulness successful galore cities.
The aerial assault, which resulted successful astatine slightest 1 decease successful a residential gathering successful the capital, Kyiv, followed days of euphoria successful Ukraine sparked by 1 of its biggest subject successes — the retaking past week of the confederate metropolis of Kherson.
The powerfulness grid was already battered by erstwhile attacks that destroyed an estimated 40% of the country's vigor infrastructure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not commented connected the retreat from Kherson since his troops pulled retired successful the look of a Ukrainian offensive. But the stunning standard of Tuesday's strikes spoke volumes and hinted astatine choler successful the Kremlin.
By striking targets successful the precocious afternoon, not agelong earlier dusk began to fall, the Russian subject forced rescue workers to labour successful the acheronian and gave repair crews scant clip to measure the harm by daylight.
More than a twelve regions — among them Lviv successful the west, Kharkiv successful the northeast and others successful betwixt — reported strikes oregon efforts by their aerial defenses to sprout missiles down. At slightest a twelve regions reported powerfulness outages, affecting cities that unneurotic person millions of people. Almost fractional of the Kyiv portion mislaid power, authorities said. Ukrainian Railways announced nationwide bid delays.
Zelenskyy warned that much strikes were imaginable and urged radical to enactment harmless and question shelter.
This is simply a processing story.
Eleanor Watson, Ed O'Keefe, Camilla Schick and Pam Falk contributed to this report.
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