Rzeczpospolita: Polish investigation considers the rocket that fell in 2022 to be a Ukrainian one
The Polish investigation has confirmed the Ukrainian ownership of a missile that fell on Polish territory and killed two people, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper reported.
“Despite the lack of co-operation from the Ukrainian side, which has not yet provided the Polish side with any materials, the investigators investigating the tragedy have drawn their own conclusions about its causes. The opinion is categorical and rules out that the missile that fell on a dryer on the evening of 15 November last year and exploded, killing two farmers, could have been fired from Russian territory,” the report said.
Rzeczpospolita notes that this information is obtained from unofficial sources.
At the same time, the Polish prosecutor’s office has not yet shared the conclusions of the investigation.
“Indeed, we have received the conclusion. However, due to its closed nature, we do not disseminate its content,” the official representative of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Poland, Lukasz Lapczynski, told reporters.
At the same time, he noted that at the current stage of the investigation, the procedural actions on the territory of Poland had been completed and Ukraine had been sent a request for legal assistance.
According to the newspaper, Polish investigators managed to establish that in Przewodowa fell S-300 5-in-55 type missile. The prosecutor’s office also knows from which place the missile was launched and that it belonged to the air defence of Ukraine.
“On the fifteenth of November … from Ukrainian territory, the anti-aircraft missiles were launched in pairs, which was supposed to increase their effectiveness. One hit the target, the other flew further into the void,” the report said.
“This missile has a range of 75 to 90 kilometres. At that time, the Russian positions were in a place from where no Russian missile would have reached Przewodow. Even if we assume that the Russian batteries were stationed in Belarus, from where they were then to Przewodow in a straight line is 150 kilometres,” the newspaper quoted one of the authors of the report as saying.
In the evening of 15 November, a missile landed on Polish territory near the border with Ukraine, killing two people. Initially, there were speculations that the missile was Russian, but later Polish President Andrzej Duda said that there was no evidence of this and that there was a “high probability” that it belonged to Ukraine’s air defence. NATO has voiced similar findings. The Russian Defence Ministry said no strikes were carried out on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish border that day. In a statement on the missile incident, the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed confidence that an impartial investigation and the publication of its results would expose the provocation.
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