At least two people died after missiles launched by Russia as part of its war campaign in Ukraine fell across the border in Poland, a member of the European Union and NATO, according to a senior US intelligence official. United States and reported the news agency The Associated Press.
The Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, called an urgent meeting of a committee for national security and defense issues, a spokesman for his government reported on the Twitter social network on Tuesday.
The committee, made up of the ministers of Defence, the Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs, as well as the coordinator of the intelligence services, is a body that prepares and coordinates decisions on national security and defence.
Russia on Tuesday shelled cities and energy facilities across Ukraine, causing widespread blackouts in what the Ukrainian government said was the biggest wave of missile attacks in almost nine months of war.