Łukašenka praises Biden’s reaction to missile blast in Poland

November 21, BPN. Alaksandr Łukašenka has praised US President Joe Biden’s reaction to last week’s missile blast in Poland.

“Well done. We should pay tribute to Joe Biden for honestly saying: ‘Sorry, it’s not Russian,’” Łukašenka said at a meeting with a Russian provincial leader in Minsk.

Biden said the missile strike that killed two people in Polish farmland was unlikely fired from Russia. Poland and NATO said it was probably performed unintentionally by Ukrainian air defenses, media reported. Ukraine blamed Russia, which pounded cities and energy facilities across its territory.

“The question is: why did you, Ukrainians, fired at the NATO state? And the main question, which no-one answers, including the Americans, is: when the Ukrainians were launching the S-300 missile, what facilities were they targeting?” he said. “There were no [enemy] missiles in the air at the time,” he added, without providing any evidence.

“I’m afraid to draw conclusions, but it looks like an enormous set-up. But they miscalculated a bit, and people died,” he told Udmurtiya leader Aleksandr Brechalov.

“The Polish leadership must tell the Poles how it came to this. Why was Polish territory hit, who made the arrangements, why the missile flying eastwards suddenly turned westwards, and why it was fired when there were no Russian missiles in the air,” he said.