Missile launched by Polish aircraft with the aim of crashing Russian drones In the airspace of Polishit was finally the “object” that hit a house in a village in the country earlier this month, he said the Wednesday Government Ministere.

The Polish authorities had initially announced that the house in the village of Viriki-Vola was probably hit by one of the 21 Russian drones that entered Poland’s airspace on September 9 to 10.

However, the newspaper Rzeczpospolita transmitted the Tuesdayciting sources, that the house was hit by a rocket launched by Polish F-16 fighterwhose guidance system was damaged.

“Everything shows that it was a rocket launched by our own aircraft, which defended Poland, our homeland, our citizens,” the Minister responsible for the TVN24 told TVN24. Special Services, Thomas Siemone.

Political confrontation and Task statements

Poland’s President Carol Navrotsky – a political opponent of Prime Minister Donald Task’s center government – said on Tuesday that he would ask for clarifications on the incident.

Task wrote on the same day on the X platform that all responsibility for the damage to Viriki-Vola belongs to Russia, which he accused of “directed challenge” through drones.

“The competent services will inform the public, the government and the president of all the circumstances of the incident after the investigation is completed,” he added.

Russian position and Warsaw’s response

Russia said that at that time it was attacking Ukraine and that it was not aimed at Poland.

Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, argued that the maximum range of drones used did not exceed 700 km, “which naturally makes it impossible to reach Polish territory”.

Warsaw rejected this argument, arguing that the drones deliberately entered Poland’s airspace to test the reaction of its own and NATO.