"All indications" are that Russian missile flew over Poland, senior Polish military official says

Poland’s most senior military officer said that "all indications" point to the airborne object that flew through Polish airspace on Friday being a Russian missile. 

According to the chief of the General Staff, Gen. Wiesław Kukuła, radar indicates that a Russian missile entered and then left Polish airspace, the official Polish news agency PAP said.

"It was tracked by us on radar and also left the airspace. We have radar and allied confirmation of this," said Kukula.

"Polish airspace was violated by an object detected by our systems. I want to assure you of good coordination and cooperation; both Polish and our allies’ systems were activated," according to the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

The extensive Russian attacks on Ukraine – some of which were aimed at locations close to the border with Poland — had not been a surprise, said Gen. Maciej Klisz, the operational commander of the Polish Armed Forces. "We had both national and allied planes in the air. Therefore, the entire development of the situation was monitored by the operational command since late at night yesterday."

Remember: In November 2022, a “Russian-made” missile struck NATO member Poland, killing two people. The missile landed outside the rural Polish village of Przewodow, close to the Ukrainian border.