A missile strike that killed two people at a grain facility in Poland was fired by Ukraine, a Polish newspaper confirmed.
Rzeczpospolita – a daily economic paper – reported that the explosion in the eastern village of Przewodow near the Ukraine border in November 2022 was caused by a rocket launched from Ukrainian soil.
The publication wrote: “This rocket has a range of 75 km to 90 km [46 to 55 miles],” citing a source as saying: “At that time, the Russian positions were in a place from which no Russian missile could reach Przewodow.”
Sources with knowledge of the investigation told the paper that Poland had established the missile was an S 300 5-W-55 air-defence missile.
Ukraine denies that one of its missiles had landed in the neighbouring NATO country.
At the time, Warsaw and NATO thought the projectile was a Ukrainian stray, easing fears of the war escalating.
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Poland’s foreign ministry initially said the missile was made in Russia but, later, Poland’s president Andrzej Duda was more cautious, saying it was not yet clear who had fired the missile or where it was made.
Russia‘s defence ministry had said: “No strikes on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish state border were made by Russian means of destruction.”
This was after a large number of Russian missiles had been launched at Ukraine a few days before the blast, with several hitting the city of Lviv, just 50 miles from the Polish border.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russia for the explosion at the time
At the time, President Zelenskyy had said any strike on a NATO country was a “significant escalation” and called for “action”.
Rzeczpospolita reported that the Ukrainian side has not made any material available to Polish investigators.
