“Based on the analysis of most of the traces, the debris indicates that it was a Russian Ch-101 missile,” said D. Tusk.
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Polish officials earlier on Thursday reported that in the eastern Lublin region, after an explosion caused by new Russian missile attacks on neighboring Ukraine, a crater 10 meters in diameter remained.
Earlier, Poland had urgently scrambled fighter jets due to Russian strikes in Ukraine.
Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said it was an “extremely difficult night” for the country’s air defense and threat detection systems.
D. Tusk earlier stated that during Russia’s large-scale missile attack on Western Ukraine, “Polish airspace was violated.”
This was also said on Thursday by the President of the European Council (EC), Antonio Costa. He stated on the social network “X”: “Last night Russia launched a massive coordinated strike on Ukraine. During the attack, Polish airspace was also violated, which once again emphasizes that Russian aggression poses a threat to the security of all Europe.”
Residents of Tarnava Kolonia village, near Lublin, reported hearing an explosion around 4 a.m. local time (5 a.m. Lithuanian time), which caused their house windows to shake, according to a police report.
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The police went to a field about two kilometers from the village houses and found a crater 10 meters wide and “debris of an unidentified object,” according to the report.
The Armed Forces command reported that a Mi-24 helicopter flew over the incident site and that the crew reported a “probable impact site of the object on undeveloped land.”
Officials announced Thursday morning that the country’s air defense systems monitored the activity of a dozen missiles flying over Western Ukraine; due to their flight path, they could pose a potential threat to Polish airspace.
According to the operational command of the Polish Armed Forces, at about 3:40 a.m. local time (4:40 a.m. Lithuanian time), an unidentified object flying westward was detected in the country’s airspace.
Later, the object disappeared from radar screens, so the military sent a helicopter to the last known location.
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