Poland blames Russia for firing missile into its territory
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An object that came down in eastern Poland overnight appears to be a Russian missile, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday, after authorities found a crater and scattered debris in a field following reports of an explosion.
The unidentified object caused a 10m-wide (33ft) crater a short distance from the village of Tarnawa Kolonia, about 100km from the border with Ukraine during a Russian attack on the city of Lviv.
Nato accused Russia of carrying out a “reckless” attack after a cruise missile crashed into a field near a Polish village. The projectile, believed to be a Kh-101 missile, left a 10m-wide crater near the south-eastern village of Tarnawa-Kolonia,
At 3:40 p.m. local time, an unidentified object was detected in Polish airspace, while "at least a dozen" missiles were "operating over western Ukraine."