Rocket hits Poland: ‘I don’t know what happened,’ says Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that he “does not know what happened” in Poland where a rocket landed on Tuesday, after confirming however that the shell was “Russian”.

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“I don’t know what happened. We don’t know for sure. The world doesn’t know. I’m sure it’s a Russian missile, and I’m sure we launched it from air defense systems,” he said at an economic forum quoted in a statement by the Ukrainian presidency.

“It is impossible to say anything specific today,” he said in response to a question about the incident.

“Only after the investigation will it be possible to draw conclusions” about the source of the shooting, Mr. Zelensky added.

Russia has repeatedly denied firing a missile on Tuesday that ended its trajectory in Poland when it hit a village near the border with Ukraine. For its part, Warsaw considered it “extremely likely” that it was a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile.

But Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Thursday that Russia, whoever carried out the strike, “bears full responsibility.”

On Thursday, Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian experts will participate in the international investigation to shed light on this incident.