A Russian missile crashed in Poland on Thursday during an overnight assault on neighboring Ukraine, NATO said, an event that could risk bringing Russia closer to direct confrontation with the Western military alliance, to which Poland belongs. Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary general, said the incident was a “violation of Poland’s airspace by a Russian missile” and vowed to strengthen alliance defenses. A NATO spokesman, Col. Martin O’Donnell, said in a statement that the “Russian missile of currently unknown type” was “one of many missiles fired by Russia at Ukraine overnight.” But it quickly became apparent that the projectile was an air defense missile that Ukraine had launched that had accidentally landed in Poland. The post NATO Says Russian Missile Hit Poland During Ukraine Attack appeared first on New York Times.