Global | 2023.12.30 02:50
[휴스턴=뉴스핌] Correspondent Go In-won = While Russia launched the largest-scale airstrike since the start of the war across Ukraine on the 29th (local time), Poland announced that a Russian missile appears to have passed through its airspace.
According to Reuters, General Masiev Klisch, commander of Polish military operations, said, “It is highly likely that the unidentified aerial object stayed in Polish airspace for about three minutes, then left Polish airspace and returned to Ukrainian airspace.”
At the time the unidentified object was identified in Polish airspace, Russia was carrying out a large-scale missile strike against Ukraine. Accordingly, the Polish side judged that there was a high possibility that the object in question was a Russian missile.
House destroyed by missile attack[사진=로이터]
In an interview with reporters, General Klish said, “The flight path of the entire Polish airspace was being monitored,” and “At present, the scenario that the (Russian) missile left Polish airspace is likely.”
General Wiesław Kukula, the Chief of Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, also said there was evidence showing that a Russian missile entered and left Polish airspace, saying, “We have received radar confirmation from domestic and allied countries.”
According to reports, the object was captured on radar near the Khrubiezow region near the border with Ukraine, and Polish military authorities began a search operation to identify the object. To date, there have been no reports of explosions or casualties.
Poland is one of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) member countries, and NATO operates a ‘collective defense system’ that treats an attack on a member state as an attack on the entire alliance and provides assistance, including military force.
Accordingly, Polish President Andrzej Duda convened an emergency meeting involving security agency heads and also spoke on the phone with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Polish government officials reported.
Secretary-General Stoltenberg said on his
The Ukrainian Air Force announced that Russia launched 158 missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) on this day, shooting down 87 cruise missiles and 27 drones. Foreign media reported that today’s Russian missile and drone attack was the largest since the beginning of the war.
Poland, which borders Ukraine, has been caught up in several accidental bombing incidents before.
In November last year, an incident occurred when a Ukrainian air defense missile mistakenly landed in the eastern border town of Przevodov near the Ukrainian border, killing two civilians. Initially, it was assumed that the missile was a Russian missile, and neighboring countries and NATO member countries were put into a state of extreme tension.
In April of this year, a mysterious projectile was discovered in a forest in northern Poland, and Polish media reported that it was a Russian missile.
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2023-12-29 17:20:00
