Russian missile violates Polish airspace during major attack on Ukraine: emergency meeting in Warsaw

The Polish Defense Minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamycz, confirmed this Friday that the aerial object had been detected this Friday in Polish airspace.By all indications, it was a Russian missile,

The minister announced at a press conference in Warsaw that the projectile “Was tracked by Polish defense systems until leaving the airfield“Polish and stressed that the path taken by the missile has been confirmed”by cooperative radar,

Shortly after the incident became known, there was speculation that the projectile might have fallen on Polish territory, so a search operation for the remains was launched, involving 200 police equipped with drones in Hrubieszów (East) near the Polish-Ukrainian border. Officers were involved.

President of Poland, andrzej dudaconvened a meeting of the National Security Assembly in the afternoon, which was attended by the Minister of Defence, the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, General Wisław Kukula, the Commander of the Operational Command of the Armed Forces, General Maciej Klisz. and the Polish Ambassador to NATO, Tomasz Szatkowski.

Furthermore, according to the head of the Polish Presidential Chancellery, Marcin Mastalerek, Duda held an online conversation with the NATO Secretary General at the end of that meeting, jens stoltenberg,

Ukraine suffered this Friday the most “huge” wave of missile and drone attacks since the beginning of the invasionAs indicated by the Air Force of that country, which counted more than 160 projectiles, a large part of which were shot down.

In April this year, the remains of a Russian-made air-to-ground rocket were found in a forest near the city of Bydgoszcz in northern Poland, and in November last year a missile struck Przewodów, six kilometers from the city. . .Polish-Ukrainian border and killed two Polish farmers.

President of Ukraine, Volodymyr ZelenskySaid this Friday that Russia fires 100 missiles at Ukraine in biggest attack in recent monthswhich caused At least 16 dead and more than 70 injured,

“Today, Russia has used almost all types of weapons in its arsenal: Kinzhal, S-300, cruise missiles and drones., Strategic bombers launch X-101/X-505 missiles. Total, About 110 missiles were fired at UkraineMost of whom were killed,” Zelensky declared.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yuri Ihnat“Televised statements said there was no such attack by Russian missiles.”In a while,

,The enemy launched a major attack using various air attack assets, In fact, threw everything away(missiles) except Kalibr. There were Kinjal (missiles), ballistic missiles, S-300, cruise missiles,” he said.

(with information from EFE)