station for that area. i m stressing these are unconfirmed reports, that stray russian missiles have fallen within poland. but given the number of launches of air strikes from russia onto ukraine throughout the day, this is a very grave development if it is confirmed, because of course poland is a member of the nato alliance. so this would technically be russia attacking a nato country. so these are unconfirmed reports and i will continue to stress that. but poland cosmic prime minister is calling an urgent meeting of poland cosmic national security council, but no reason has been given as to why. but it follows these unconfirmed reports. going back to what has been happening across ukraine today. russia has launched one of its biggest barrages of missiles yet on ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure and buildings. millions are without power and
council. now we have no reason behind why this has been called, but it is following unconfirmed reports that stray russian missiles have fallen on a polish farm near the ukrainian border. again, they are unconfirmed reports that people were killed. i want to take you to the website of a polish news organisation which is also stating that two people were killed. two people killed according to unconfirmed reports. on the east of poland, very near to the border. this website quotes the radio
reports of this potential russian missile. i guess we saw nato earlier on today, and this is on it, a polish media outlets which is talking about an explosion in the village in eastern poland. this is the region. so, again, we are still waiting for that absolute confirmation as to what caused that explosion. but it looks like some kind of farm vehicle on its side. we understand and we saw earlier on this year nato having that strategic semantics, talking about increasing exporter with russia, doubling its border with russia for those countries along the border, this is really worrying, needless to say. it
mr putin to end it. doctor, thank| you very much for taking the time mr putin to end it. doctor, thank- you very much for taking the time to just talk us through that breaking news that we are getting coming in from the top of the hour, that poland has convened an emergency national security meeting. two people have been reportedly killed near the border with ukraine. i am stressing that no reason has been given for the meeting to have been given for the meeting to have been convened, but, of course, this follows reports that stray russian missiles style and a polish farm near the ukrainian border. firefighters have confirmed an explosion at the farm and that there were indeed two decks. they do not give us the cause. we haven t had it confirmed as to whether these are indeed russian missiles, but we know that a few moments ago, the pentagon s press secretary had this to say. we pentagon s press secretary had this to sa . ~ . pentagon s press secretary had this tosa .. . . . pentagon s
security meeting and will get information from them. thank you very much for bringing this information of some of the reactions from poland itself and yes, we do know is he was saying there, the polish prime minister has convened this defence counsel over these reports and also, we re getting information that in the past few minutes. president zelensky has been addressing this and i would just like to come up before we talk about what president zelensky said, i would like to welcome our viewers here on bbc news during this breaking news that we are getting reports and these are unconfirmed reports and these are unconfirmed reports of russian missiles falling within poland and poland has convened an emergency national security meeting after two people