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| WSJ reveals new details about rocket crash in Poland |
| 2023-05-31 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The rocket, the wreckage of which was found in April near the city of Bydgoszcz in Poland, fell near the training center of the North Atlantic Alliance. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to Western officials . WSJ: Missile found near Bydgoszcz in Poland fell near NATO training center According to the publication, in December 2022, the projectile crossed half of the territory of Poland and fell about 10 miles (about 16 km) from the NATO training center. This created problems for the protection of the airspace of the alliance, the newspaper notes. A NATO official did not comment on the incident. At the same time, a newspaper source from the Polish administration stressed that the alliance constantly monitors its air defense system to ensure the protection of allies. As IA Regnum reported, in a forest in northwestern Poland, not far from Bydgoszcz, on April 27, fragments of an “unidentified airborne military facility” were found. Some Polish media and public, citing their sources, wrote that these are fragments of an object resembling fragments of a rocket with inscriptions in Russian. A high-ranking Polish military man said that this missile was Russian and fired from an aircraft from the territory of Belarus . At the same time, he noted that he cannot give a 100% guarantee of confirmation of his assumption, since we are talking about a situation that occurred several months ago. The commander of the Polish Armed Forces, Tomasz Petrovsky, noted that the rocket could have arrived on December 16, there was no explosion at the scene, and no one was injured. The Polish radio station RMF, in turn, suggested that a military facility discovered in the forest could belong to the Polish army . According to her, the object appeared in the forest, probably not as a result of shelling from Ukraine. We are talking about fragments of military equipment belonging to the Polish army. At the same time, it remains unknown under what circumstances this object got there. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak admitted that the rocket that fell on the territory of Poland in December 2022 could have come from Ukraine. Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki said that he learned about the December fall on the country's territory only at the end of April. |
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