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Polish experts confirmed that the missile that hit the country’s farm last November was Ukrainian. Photo/Jakub Orzechowski/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS
WARSAW – Experts from Poland confirmed that the missile that killed two people at a grain facility last November was fired by Ukraine. That’s the Polish daily report, Rzeczpospolita, citing anonymous sources.
Sources familiar with the investigation told Rzeczpospolita that Poland has determined that the missile that landed in the village of Przewodow was an S-300 5-W-55 air defense missile fired from Ukrainian territory.
“This rocket has a range of 75 km to 90 km,” the newspaper reported, citing the source.
“At that time, Russia’s position was in a place that did not allow Russian missiles to reach Przewodow,” he continued as quoted by Reuters, Tuesday (26/9/2023).
Ukraine itself denies that any of its missiles have landed in Poland.
Rzeczpospolita reports that the Ukrainian side has not provided any materials to Polish investigators.
The newspaper quoted Lukasz Lapczynski, a spokesman for Poland’s prosecutor’s office, as saying that prosecutors had received the experts’ opinions but were not disclosing their contents because they were confidential.
Lapczynski could not immediately be reached for comment and the Polish prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to an emailed request for a statement.
The missile explosion in NATO-member Poland sparked fears that the war in Ukraine could escalate into a wider conflict by triggering the alliance’s mutual defense clause.