The head of Poland’s armed forces thinks a Russian missile went into Polish airspace for almost three minutes and then went back into Ukrainian airspace.
Gen. Wieslaw Kukula said the missile went about 25 miles (40 km) into Polish airspace early Friday morning.
It was the warning at the same time that Ukraine said Russia had the most airstrikes in a day since the war started.
Once President Andrzej Duda saw the object on radar, he called an emergency meeting to talk about security.
There have been about 200 police officers searching the area where the object was found in case the missile fell in Poland.
Since Poland is a part of NATO, Polish and Allied planes were sent to the scene of the accident around 7:00 (06:00 GMT) on Friday. No one has said that there was a blast.
Read More: In Spite Of Us Threats, Yemeni Rebels Say They Will Keep Attacking In The Red Sea
Lt. Col. Jacek Goryszewski, spokeswoman for Operational Command, said that an unidentified object had come into Poland from Ukraine near the town of Zamosc in the Lublin region in the southeast of Poland. This is not far from the border.
He told TVN24 that the event might have something to do with Russia’s attack on some of Ukraine’s biggest towns with missiles and drones.
At least 18 people were killed in the attacks in Lviv, Dnipro, Kyiv, and other places. Lviv is the closest city in Ukraine to the Lublin region.
While it was dark, the Russian missile attacks were being watched by the Polish forces. Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, said that the union stood with Poland and “remains vigilant.”
Not proven, a story said that there was a search going on near the town of Hrubieszow.
Polish military expert Cmdr. Maksymilian Dura told Polish TV that it was too early to say for sure that it was a Russian missile because it hadn’t been found yet, and just because touch had been lost didn’t mean that it was sure to have left Polish airspace.
One of the Russian missiles flew over Poland.
— Laryssa Waler
Does @NATO matter or not? Or are we going to be a little loosey goosey on it all?
"Poland says Russian missile entered airspace then went into Ukraine"https://t.co/khlFOPL8ZPЛариса Валєр (@LWaler) December 29, 2023
The head of the Lublin Voivodship, which is like a province or region, Krzysztof Komorski, wrote on social media, “Please be calm and patient, the services are working.”
There have been three missiles fired into Poland since Russia invaded and started a war with Ukraine.
Two Polish farmers were killed when a missile hit the village of Przewodow near the border with Ukraine in November 2022. People thought that Ukrainian air defence troops fired it to block a Russian missile attack.
In December of last year, something that was probably an unarmed Russian Kh-55 cruise missile was fired from Belarus and went across about 500 km of Polish land before falling in a forest. It was not dangerous, but it was embarrassing.
At the time, Polish air forces saw the object. It wasn’t until April of this year that a bystander found it near the city of Bydgoszcz in central Poland.
This year, another unidentified object that came into Polish sky from Belarus was most likely an observation balloon. It lost radar contact near Rypin in the middle of Poland.
In Poland’s political scene, both sides have used the latest event to make their case.
In a post on X, the site that used to be Twitter, Poland’s new defence minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, said that the security forces “acted immediately” to the latest incident, letting Poles know that “the state is acting!”
Mariusz Blaszczak, who was in charge of security during the two earlier events and was part of the right-wing Law and Justice government that lost the election in October, said, “We don’t know what fell in the area of Tomaszow Lubelski.” We don’t know if anyone got hurt. We don’t know why the defences against planes didn’t work. Does the government act?”
What do you say about this story? Visit Parhlo World For more.
