US Secretary of Defense says "Russia bears ultimate responsibility" for Poland incident

Two people were killed when a missile fell on a farm in Przewodow, near the Poland-Ukraine border, at 3:40 pm local time on Tuesday. The US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin III, told a press conference at the Pentagon on Wednesday, November 16, that, “the world knows that Russia bears ultimate responsibility for this incident," referring to a missile explosion in Poland that killed two people. Austin told reporters: "We’re still gathering information, but we have seen nothing that contradicts President Duda’s preliminary assessment that this explosion was most likely the result of a Ukrainian air defense missile that, unfortunately, landed in Poland." “Whatever the final conclusions may be, the world knows that Russia bears ultimate responsibility for this incident,” Austin said. Credit: US Department of Defense via Storyful