According to Poland’s chief of military, a Russian missile briefly entered Polish airspace before reverting to Ukrainian territory, lasting approximately three minutes.
According to Gen. Wieslaw Kukula, the missile entered Polish airspace early on Friday, traveling roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles).
The warning came at the same time as what Ukraine has described as Russia’s busiest day of airstrikes since the start of the war.
According to Poland’s UN envoy, Warsaw believes the incident is related to the heavy bombardment.
According to Krzysztof Szczerski, “We clearly see it as an element of the situation created by the latest wave of Russian attacks,” he said to the UN Security Council.
An emergency security meeting was called by President Andrzej Duda when the object was detected by radar.
Should the missile have landed on Polish soil, some 200 police officers have been searching the area where it was found. NATO member Poland was among the nations whose aircraft were called in to respond to the incident at approximately 07:00 (06:00 GMT) on Friday. An explosion has not been reported.
According to Lt Col Jacek Goryszewski, a spokesman for Operational Command, an unidentified object crossed the border into Poland from Ukraine close to the town of Zamosc in the southeast Polish region of Lublin.
The attacks, which were directed at Dnipro, Kyiv, and other cities as well as Lviv, the closest Ukrainian city to the Lublin region, claimed the lives of at least thirty people.
Throughout the night, the Polish military monitored the Russian missile strikes. NATO “remains vigilant” and expresses solidarity with Poland, according to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
A search was reportedly underway close to the town of Hrubieszow, according to an unverified report.
The Polish government has not discounted provocations from Russia. “We must make sure that this wasn’t an attempt to provoke us or gauge our response. According to TVN24, Deputy Defence Minister Stanislaw Wziatek stated, “We should thoroughly examine both scenarios.”
According to Cmdr Maksymilian Dura, a Polish military expert, TVN24 could not be certain that the missile had left Polish airspace just because contact had been lost, and it was premature to conclude it was a Russian missile because it had not been found.
The president of the Lublin Voivodship, or the equivalent of a province or region, Krzysztof Komorski, posted on social media with the message, “Please be calm and patient, the services are working.”
Three missiles have entered Poland since Russia invaded and waged war against Ukraine.
Two Polish farmers lost their lives in November 2022 when a missile struck the village of Przewodow, which is close to the Ukrainian border. It was thought to have been fired in response to a Russian missile attack by the Ukrainian air defense forces.
An object thought to be an unarmed Russian Kh-55 cruise missile was fired from Belarus in December of last year, traveling over 500 kilometers of Polish territory before landing in a forest. The incident was innocuous but more embarrassing.
The object was discovered in April of this year by a bystander not far from the central Polish city of Bydgoszcz, despite having been detected at the time by Polish air defenses. This year, another unexplained object that entered Polish airspace from Belarusian territory was most likely an observation balloon. It was lost from radar contact in the central Polish region of Rypin.
The most recent incident has been used by both political parties in Poland as an opportunity to gain ground.
Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland’s newly appointed minister of defense, emphasized in a post on X, the former Twitter, that the security forces “acted immediately” to the most recent incident, assuring Poles that “the state is acting!”
“We don’t know what fell in the area of Tomaszow Lubelski,” retorted his predecessor, Mariusz Blaszczak, of the right-wing Law and Justice-led government that lost an election in October and held the position of defense minister during the two previous incidents. It is unknown if anyone was harmed.
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