By KYIV. Nov 17 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian experts should join the work of the investigation into the explosion of missiles in Poland, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video statement on Wednesday.
"Today was a long and difficult day. And now, in the evening, it already seems that the events of the morning were at least yesterday or the day before yesterday. And the day is not over yet. Another meeting of the UN Security Council on a new wave of Russian missile terror. We follow the statements, work with partners, protect Ukrainian interests. Certainly, one of the main issues of the Security Council is the situation in Poland: finding out all the circumstances of how Russian aggression crossed the Polish border," he said.
According to him, "the Ukrainian position is very transparent: we strive to establish all the details, every fact. Therefore, we need our specialists to join the work of the international investigation and that we get access to all the data available to the partners and to the place of the explosion."
"All our information is publicly available. We have been providing it to partners since the night, from those first hours when the world began to find out what happened," Zelensky said.
"Last night I spoke with President Duda and expressed my condolences to him. Russian aggression claimed the lives of two citizens of Poland," the president said.
On Wednesday evening, Head of the National Security Directorate of Poland Jacek Siewiera announced a visit to Warsaw by U.S. CIA Director William Burns.
"In the evening, President Andrzej Duda spoke with Head of the CIA, William Burns, who is in Warsaw after visiting Ankara and Kyiv. The conversation touched on the general security situation, the context of recent events surfaced. There is a lot of work today on the PL-U.S. line," Siewiera said in Twitter.
