Polish authorities said Thursday that a 10 metre (33 feet) wide crater had been left by an explosion, likely of a Russian missile, in an eastern region bordering Ukraine.<\/p>\n
At a press conference at the scene, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Ukrainian border, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the missile that caused the explosion was likely a Russian Kh-101.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the analysis of most of the traces, the recovered fragments point to a Russian Kh-101 missile,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Residents of Tarnawa Kolonia, near Lublin, reported hearing an explosion at about 4:00 am (0200 GMT) that shook the windows of their homes as Russia staged new missile attacks on neighbouring Ukraine, said a police statement.<\/p>\n
Polish authorities did not immediately give the cause of the crater but it took place as Russia stage a massive new attack on the Lviv region in western Ukraine, near the border with Poland.<\/p>\n
Polish military prosecutors were investigating, authorities said. But Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said on X that \u201cOvernight, a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Poland as part of Russia\u2019s massive strike against Ukraine, violating NATO airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n
EU council president Antonio Costa also said that Polish airspace had been \u201cviolated\u201d during the missile and drone strike.<\/p>\n
Police said they went to the field about two kilometres from the residents\u2019 homes and found a 10-metre wide \u201ccrater\u201d and \u201cdebris from a non-identified object\u201d.<\/p>\n
The armed forces command said that an Mi-24 helicopter flew over the scene and reported \u201cthe probable impact place of the object on unbuilt land\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish authorities said Thursday that a 10 metre (33 feet) wide crater had been left by an explosion,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,704,7298],"class_list":["post-19228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-tusk","tag-donald-tusk","tag-international","tag-mna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}