After nearly 500 Territorial Defence Forces personnel completed their examination of the targeted area for a stray Russian missile, the Polish Operational Command of the Armed Forces (DORSZ) reported no plans for further activity and that the operations had concluded.
Ground searches were conducted in the Lublin Voivodeship on Friday to look for suspected components of the object that allegedly violated Polish airspace. Around 480 men from the 19th Nadbuaska Territorial Defence Brigade and the 2nd Lublin Territorial Defence Brigade participated in the search.
According to the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, an object violated Polish airspace on Friday morning at 7:12 a.m. local time from the Ukrainian side of the border and exited Polish territory in less than three minutes. The General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces confirmed on platform X that it was a Russian manoeuvring missile.
According to the statement, Polish and Allied radar systems followed the missile’s full flight path.
Air defence systems remained operational. In addition, F-16 planes were assigned to patrol where the missile passed into Polish territory. Furthermore, soldiers and assets from the army, air forces, and territory defence forces were dispatched to trace the object’s trajectory on the ground to validate data from radar systems, according to the General Staff.
On Friday, President Andrzej Duda, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Wadysaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Chief of the General Staff Gen. Wiesaw Kukua, and Operational Commander of the Armed Forces Gen. Maciej Klisz attended a briefing at the National Security Bureau (BBN). The meeting was called in response to intelligence concerning an unidentified flying object violating Polish airspace near Zamo after entering from Ukraine.
