Ukraine may get access to missile blast site - Polish officials - Reuters

PRZEWODOW, Poland/WARSAW, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Ukraine whitethorn get the entree it has demanded to the tract successful the borderline country of southeastern Poland wherever a rocket killed 2 radical connected Tuesday, Polish officials said connected Thursday.

Warsaw and its Western allies accidental grounds from the country points to the detonation being caused by a Ukrainian aerial defence rocket that went astray successful pursuit of a Russian missile. Kyiv denies this, saying it has grounds of a "Russian trace" successful the blast.

Polish President Andrzej Duda said connected Wednesday that including Ukrainian officials successful the probe would necessitate the statement of some countries starring an ongoing investigation, Poland and the United States.

"If Ukrainian guests privation to spot the investigation, we volition beryllium capable to amusement them, conscionable arsenic I person been shown," Duda said connected Thursday during a sojourn to Przewodow, a colony 6 km (4 miles) from the Ukrainian borderline wherever the rocket landed.

"When it comes to participating successful the probe and entree to documents and information, this requires circumstantial pact provisions, planetary instrumentality provisions, planetary agreements," helium said.

Duda did not elaborate connected whether Poland would assistance specified access.

"Ukraine and Poland volition cooperate constructively and openly connected the incidental caused by Russian rocket panic against Ukraine," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote connected Twitter.

"Our experts are already successful Poland. We expect them to swiftly get entree to the tract successful practice with Polish instrumentality enforcement."

Duda said investigators recovered nary motion of a 2nd rocket connected Polish soil. Some archetypal media reports mentioned 2 rockets.

The detonation has stirred fear and disbelief among residents of Przewodow, a colony of astir 440 people, raising concerns among locals that the Ukraine conflict, Europe's astir deadly since World War Two, could spill crossed the borderline into NATO subordinate Poland astatine immoderate time.

Duda said it was a precise trying clip for the families of the victims and the section community, arsenic good arsenic for Ukraine.

"This is an highly hard concern for them and immense emotions, tremendous stress," Duda said.

EVIDENCE

Presidential advisor Jakub Kumoch earlier said that Poland had video grounds regarding the blast.

"These are our mean photos from the border, wherever you tin spot definite things. You spot shots implicit Ukraine, warring implicit Ukraine, and astatine immoderate point, successful a precise abbreviated time, you spot a definite series of events," Kumoch said.

He said that from the rocket debris, the extent of the crater and the magnitude of substance utilized it was imaginable to cipher wherever it was fired from.

Kumoch did not supply immoderate different details. He said that helium wanted the Ukrainians to get acquainted with these materials first, successful interaction with those conducting the investigation.

Poland has said it believes the rocket was an S-300, an aged Soviet-era rocket utilized by some Russia and Ukraine.

RESPONSIBILITY

While Warsaw and Kyiv disagree connected the determination the rocket was fired from, they and different Western allies are agreed successful the presumption that yet Russia is astatine fault.

"The Russian broadside indispensable beryllium alert of the menace it poses by bombing ... astatine a region of virtually respective twelve kilometres from the Polish border, that immoderate of the missiles, whether from the Russian broadside oregon those Ukrainian anti-missile systems, tin onshore connected the territory of a overseas state, successful this case, Poland," said Adrian Kubicki, Poland's Consul General successful New York.

"So thing present changes the appraisal that the Russian Federation is liable for what happened."

A Reuters writer connected the outskirts of Przewodow said determination appeared to beryllium fewer locals connected the streets connected Thursday, different than children being taken to schoolhouse by bus. Access to Przewodow has been blocked by police.

Military and constabulary vehicles entered the colony periodically, portion soldiers patrolled the streets and surrounding fields.

Reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz, Anna Koper, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Marek Strzelecki successful Warsaw, Kuba Stezycki successful Przewodow, Aleksandra Michalska successful New York, penning by Alan Charlish; Editing by Alex Richardson and Nick Macfie

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