By contradicting NATO about the missile’s origin in Poland, Zelensky complicates the task

On Wednesday, Kyiv confirmed that the missile that killed two people in Poland was a Russian missile, which contradicts Washington and its allies who adopt the hypothesis of a Ukrainian missile.

Zelensky kept at it. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed in a statement on Wednesday evening that the missile that killed two people in a Polish village near the border with Ukraine was Russian.

“I have no doubt that the missile was not ours,” he said.

However, caution was required on the part of NATO, Europe and the United States. As of Tuesday evening, Moscow denied bombing Polish territory. And a few hours before Zelensky’s statement on Wednesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda mentioned that there had been an incident from the Ukrainian defense.

“There is no indication that this was a deliberate attack on Poland,” he told reporters. There is no indication of a deliberate attack in Poland, which was announced by then NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.

Finally in the evening, Adrian Watson, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, It also supported the Ukrainian missile defense thesis.

In context, we can make excuses.

“For the first time, Russia is saying something that turns out to be true about this missile, putting propaganda on the other side into difficulty,” Ulysse Gosset, an international political columnist, analyzed on the BFMTV group.

“But we must not forget the main thing: there is a terrible day ahead for Ukraine,” he continues, recalling the Russian strikes on Ukrainian soil. “In context, we can excuse him, because this is the first time he’s slipped up a little bit,” explains Ulysse José.

This obstinacy nonetheless appears to be a strategic mistake for Volodymyr Zelensky. Thus the Hungarian government assessed on Wednesday that the Ukrainian president was setting a “bad example”.

“In such a situation, world leaders speak responsibly,” Gergely Gulis, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, told reporters.

But he added that “the Ukrainian president, by immediately accusing the Russians, was wrong, it is a bad example,” welcoming the opposite of the cautious stance of Poland and the United States.

“It complicates life.”

The immediate announcement of the Ukrainian president was also criticized by the French side. In an interview with our colleagues from FranceInfoGeneral Michel Yakovlev, an officer-general in the French Army, asserted that Zelensky had “lost the opportunity to remain silent”.

Considering Volodymyr Zelensky, the general said, “He has capital of sympathy but I don’t see why he should rush. It’s embarrassing for him in terms of NATO and opens a real avenue for Russian propaganda.” complicate his life.

Moscow has already widely denounced the Ukrainian president’s position. On BFMTV, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in France, Alexander Makugunov, privately confirmed that Zelensky “[avait eu] Hysterical reaction.