During the attack on western Ukraine, Russia violated Polish airspace with its missile with a flat flight path, the command of the Polish armed forces announced today. According to him, the incident happened in the morning. Polish President Andrzej Duda was informed about the incident, information about the violation of NATO borders was also passed on to Poland’s allies in the North Atlantic Alliance, Polish media reported.
“All necessary procedures aimed at ensuring the safety of Polish airspace have been launched. Among other things, the Polish and allied air forces were activated,” said the command, according to TVN24 television. ANDAccording to the communique, the incident happened at 04:23 CET near the village of Oserdów, and the missile, which was tracked by radars throughout the flight, remained in Polish airspace for 39 seconds. PolePolish armed forces are monitoring the situation and remain on constant alert to ensure the safety of Polish airspace, the command said.
“I just left the house, it was dawn. I saw a fast flying object in the sky, it was illuminated and flew quite low from the border with Ukraine. It made a sharp, metallic sound, penetrating the whole body,Henryk Zdyb, head of the village, told Gazeta Wyborcza.
“All records from our radars show that it was one of the missiles that the Russian Air Force fired into the territory of Ukraine,” Colonel Jacek Goryszewski said on TV. The missile flew at a speed of approximately 800 kilometers per hour at a height of 400 meters.
There was a shot launched from one of 14 Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers that, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, took off from the airport near Murmansk. An aerial alert was declared throughout Ukraine, and the mayor of Lviv in western Ukraine reported that two dozen missiles and seven drones were aimed at the city, the targets of which were infrastructure objects. No explosions were reported in the city itself, TVN24 added on its website.
According to television, the head of the National Security Office, Jacek Siewiera, said that he spoke with Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniaki-Kamysz about the incident after 5:00 a.m. the president as commander-in-chief of the armed forces was also informed immediately. Information about further violations of NATO borders by Russia was passed on to the Allies.
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The ministry said the Russians attempted to hit critical energy infrastructure facilities in the Lviv region today. “The equipment caught fire and the object was de-energized. There were no casualties, the consequences are being evaluated,” the office said. According to him, power lines in the Kyiv region were damaged and 1,400 households in two municipalities lost power.
Russian missile attack in Ukraine hit an underground gas reservoir. However, supplies are not threatened, said the Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz.
The daily Rzeczpospolita reminded Mrsimilar incidents from the recent past, which, according to him, confirm that the biggest war is taking place at the Polish border and that Poland is part of the West’s confrontation with Russia.
“We have to take into account that this has far-reaching consequences for us, with missiles and perhaps in the future drones accidentally entering Polish airspace, which may not be the most serious at all. Everything shows that, at best, we are facing a long cold war with Russia, in which a new iron curtain will lead across our border with the Kaliningrad region and Belarus. Most likely, because of Russian imperialism and Moscow’s ambitions, we will have to live with the specter of war hanging over our part of Europe for years. The annuity of times of peace, which we enjoyed for over 30 years, is over,” the newspaper concluded.
The first consequence of this situation for Poland je sharp increase in defense spending, the decline of which cannot be expected in the coming years. “That’s why the question shouldn’t be why Poland didn’t shoot a shot that was in its area for several tens of seconds. We have to ask what can be done so that the target of such a rocket is neither today, nor tomorrow, and never in Poland,” added the Polish daily.