Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that the object that fell in a field in the east of the country in the early morning of the 30th of July is most likely a Russian missile, writes the BBC.
The object created a ten-meter-wide crater in a field near the village of Tarnawa. The village is located about 100 kilometers from the Polish border with Ukraine, and the missile flew into Polish territory when Moscow launched an attack on Lviv. Tusk said at a specially convened meeting in Lublin that everything indicates that the fallen object is a Russian Kh-101 ballistic missile, but it is still necessary to be 100% sure of the type of missile and who launched it.
Ukraine’s acting foreign minister, Andriy Sibikha, reported on the morning of July 30 that a Russian Kh-100 missile had entered Poland during another major attack on Ukraine, violating NATO airspace.
Several Russian drones and one missile have fallen in Poland since Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that
about 20 objects had been near the Polish border overnight.
A pyrotechnic analysis is currently underway to determine what fell near Tarnów.
The Polish military spotted the object at about 3:40 a.m. local time on July 30 and scrambled F-16 fighter jets to intercept it, but the object then disappeared from radar screens, and a military helicopter was sent to the area. Air raid sirens were also heard in Lublin and Krasnistów due to the Russian attacks. Residents of Tarnów reported a loud bang at around 4am, and about an hour later police found the site of the missile.
Tusk said there were no reports of casualties, but that the incident was being taken very seriously.
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