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Polish Experts Confirm Missile That Hit Grain Facility Was Ukrainian


Polish investigators work at the site where a missile struck a grain facility in the village of Przewodow last November. (file photo)
Polish investigators work at the site where a missile struck a grain facility in the village of Przewodow last November. (file photo)

Polish experts have confirmed that a missile which killed two people at a grain facility in November was fired by Ukraine, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported, citing sources. The explosion of the missile in NATO-member Poland fueled fears that the war in Ukraine could spiral into a wider conflict by triggering the alliance's mutual defense clause, but at the time Warsaw and NATO said that they believed that it was a Ukrainian projectile that had strayed off course. Sources with knowledge of the investigation told Rzeczpospolita that Poland had established that the missile that landed in the village of Przewodow was an S 300 5-W-55 air-defense missile. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.

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