Chief of the General Staff of Poland Weslaw Kukula informed that the countryʼs airspace was violated by a Russian missile. It happened at about 7 in the morning. The missile was tracked by radar.
"All indications are that the fact that a Russian missile invaded the airspace of Poland. We have confirmation of this on national and allied radars," General Kukula noted.
"We tracked the flight paths of most of these missiles and had information about the number and directions of movement. In this case, one of these missiles, as I already mentioned, crossed the Polish border and later left it," he added.
“Polsat News”, citing sources, writes that it could be an Kh-22 or Kh-101 cruise missile. It allegedly later flew to Ukraine again and was shot down by air defense.
- On the morning of December 29, Russian troops launched a massive attack on Ukraine. Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia were attacked with 122 missiles and 36 drones. Destroyed residential buildings, high-rise buildings, a maternity hospital, schools, kindergartens, a shopping center. At least 26 people died, more than 120 people were injured. Air defense shot down 87 cruise missiles and 27 attack drones.
- During the morning Russian missile-drone attack, an unknown object flew into Polish airspace from the territory of Ukraine.