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.
It was the latest in a series of airspace incursions in countries on NATO’s eastern flank, including Romania and the Baltic states, that have fuelled fears of the war in Ukraine spilling over the alliance’s borders.
The Kh-101, an air-launched cruise missile that can fly more than 2,500 km (1,553 miles), according to military experts, has been a workhorse of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
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Source: Reuters
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