Housing Secretary Michael Gove lashed out at the head of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) telling him to 'do your job, man' over the death of Awaab Ishak. (Polish President Andrzej Duda left, Vladimir Putin bottom right). But Article 4 allows for a consultation of member states to determine appropriate collective responses to incidents, so it is unlikely that NATO will launch a military operation unless there is proof of Russian intentions to deliberately target Polish or NATO military bases, infrastructure or civilian centres. Article 5 of the Washington treaty - NATO's founding agreement - stipulates that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, 'each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence'. Poland is a member of NATO which maintains a 'collective defence policy', meaning that an attack on one nation in the security bloc is an attack on all. NATO ambassadors will now meet on Wednesday to plot a response to the incident, with one European diplomat said the alliance would act cautiously and needed time to verify how exactly the incident happened. Russia's defence ministry for its part denied that its missiles had landed on Polish soil, describing the incident as 'a deliberate provocation aimed at escalating the situation'. The blasts came as Moscow launched fresh missile attacks across Ukraine today in what Kyiv said was the heaviest wave of missile strikes in nearly nine months of war. Explosions rang out in Przewodów (main, map inset), a rural village located five miles from the Ukrainian border in south western Poland, at around 3:40pm local time. 'A Russian-made missile fell, killing two citizens of the Republic of Poland,' Polish foreign ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina said, adding that the Russian ambassador to Poland had been summoned to give 'immediate detailed explanations'.
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