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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended an emergency meeting of G7 and NATO leaders called by U.S. President Joe Biden Tuesday in Indonesia after Poland said it was investigating after what it called a Russian-made missile hit its territory and killed two people.
The Polish government confirmed that its foreign minister summoned the Russian ambassador on Tuesday and"demanded immediate explanations," in a statement that came shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decried the missile strike as a"very significant escalation." The keystone of its founding treaty, Article 5, stipulates that any"armed attack" against one member constitutes an attack against all, and may trigger a self-defence response from allies as a bloc.
But Conservative defence critic James Bezan explicitly blamed the deaths in Poland on Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said on Twitter that his party condemns Putin for"the callous missile attacks" and"our deepest condolences go out to the people of Poland and Ukraine for the loss of their citizens."
Poland's statements have not addressed the specific circumstances of the strike, including whether it could have been a targeting error or if the missile could have been knocked off course by Ukrainian missile defences. Biden spoke with both Stoltenberg and Duda on Tuesday after he was woken up during the night in Indonesia, where it was past midnight when the first reports emerged about Poland.
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