Poland summons Russian ambassador over missile incursion

WARSAW: Poland's foreign ministry on Friday handed the Russian ambassador a note of protest following an incursion of a missile into one of its eastern regions a day earlier, a spokesman said.
'The ambassador was informed of our unequivocal condemnation of hostile actions directed against the security of a sovereign state and its citizens,' foreign ministry spokesman Maciej Wewior told journalists.
'We emphasised that any escalation at the border of the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance is unacceptable,' he added, underlining that the root of the incident was 'the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation'.
Earlier on Friday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that the ambassador had been summoned 'in connection with the missile that hit Polish territory yesterday,' after the missile left a crater in a field some 80 kilometres from Poland's border with Ukraine.
Nato and European leaders blamed Russia for the explosion of a Kh-101 missile in a field that shook residents of the village of Tarnawa Kolonia.
'The missile was manufactured in the second quarter of this year at a factory near Moscow,' Polish defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz wrote on X.
An expert from Ukraine who arrived at the scene 'did not have the slightest doubt' about the origins or model of the missile, Marcin Kozak, spokesman for the Lublin prosecutor's office, told journalists on Friday.
'I will point out that this type of missile is used exclusively by Russian strategic aviation,' Wewior said.
In November 2022, a Ukrainian air-defence missile fell on the Polish village of Przewodow, killing two people.
And in September 2025, around 20 Russian drones that entered Polish airspace were shot down or crashed.
Other eastern European states have also been hit by Russian drones and missiles since 2022, particularly Romania and Moldova. - AFP