The Operational Command of the Armed Forces reports that on December 29, in the morning hours, an unidentified aerial object entered the airspace of the Republic of Poland from the side of the Ukrainian border, which was tracked by the radar from the moment it crossed. boundary before the signal disappears.
– Everything indicates that the Russian missile entered Polish airspace and then left. We have national and allied radar confirmation of this, Chief of the General Staff General Wisław Kukula said after a meeting at the National Security Bureau called by the president.
later The search for possible elements of the object was conducted in Lublin Voivodeship. About 500 soldiers participated in it. On December 30, the military announced that nothing had been found and had ended its inspection activities.
Asked on TVN24 on Wednesday if he thought it was a Russian provocation, the head of the National Security Bureau, Jacek Sieviera, replied: – I can't rule it out. Allies do not exclude this either.
As he added, ““It is difficult to assume that the crossing of 40 kilometers from the border of the Republic of Poland was accidental. – This type of trajectory significantly disrupts the airspace – he explained. He emphasized that “JAs for the risks, of course, they are very high and we have to take them into account.”