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Russian missile appears to have come down in Poland: PM
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(EPA PHOTO) Credit: AAPAn object that came down in eastern Poland appears to be a Russian missile, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says after authorities found a crater and scattered debris in a field following reports of an explosion.
Tusk told an emergency meeting that everything suggested the object was a Russian Kh-101 missile but Polish officials wanted to be 100 per cent certain about the type of missile and who launched it.
The Kh-101, an air-launched cruise missile that can fly more than 2500km according to military experts, has been a workhorse of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said earlier in a post on X that a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Poland.
The operational command of Poland's armed forces said an object had been detected in Polish airspace at 3.40am on Thursday and disappeared from radars soon afterwards.