{"id":563892,"date":"2026-07-30T12:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563892"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:19:46","slug":"tusk-most-likely-we-are-dealing-with-a-kh-101-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tusk-most-likely-we-are-dealing-with-a-kh-101-missile","title":{"rendered":"Tusk: Most Likely We Are Dealing With a Kh-101 Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Tusk<\/b>, Poland’s prime minister, said it is most likely that a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crashed in Poland. Earlier, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said a missile<\/a> of this type had entered Polish airspace.<\/p>\n

“The relevant services, first and foremost the military, including our pilots and aircraft, responded very quickly and effectively,”<\/i> Tusk said.<\/p>\n

He stressed that although the missile crashed, the Polish military had been prepared to shoot it down had it continued flying deeper into Polish territory.<\/p>\n

“So far, everything indicates that we are dealing with a Russian Kh-101 missile, but we do not want to pre-empt the results of the detailed investigation. We want to be 100% certain what type of missile it was, who launched it, and whether the warhead detonated or the explosion resulted from the impact,”<\/i> the prime minister added.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz<\/b> said that more than 20 objects detected in Ukrainian airspace could have posed a potential threat to Poland. According to him, Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jets were also operating near the border in coordination with their Polish counterparts. He added that NATO allies had been informed of the incident.<\/p>\n

Earlier overnight, the Polish military scrambled an F-16 fighter jet<\/a> to intercept an unidentified object that had entered the country’s airspace. However, the object disappeared from radar before visual contact could be established. A helicopter was dispatched to the suspected crash site. Later, a 10-metre crater<\/a> and fragments of an unidentified object were discovered in an undeveloped area near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia, about 90 km from the border with Ukraine. Local residents reported hearing a powerful explosion during the night.<\/p>\n

According to the Ukrainian Air Force<\/a>, Russia used 61 Kh-101 cruise missiles in today’s attack. Ukrainian air defences intercepted 54 of them, while two cruise missiles were reported to have reached their targets.<\/p>\n

The Kh-101 is a Russian air-launched strategic cruise missile with a maximum range of 2,500-2,800 km. It entered service in 2013. The missile carries a warhead weighing about 400 kg and approximately 1.25 tonnes of fuel. It has a maximum speed of about 0.78 Mach and can be equipped with high-explosive fragmentation, high-explosive or cluster warheads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, said it is most likely that a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crashed in Poland. Earlier, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said a missile of this type had entered Polish airspace. “The relevant services, first and foremost the military, including our pilots and aircraft, responded very quickly and effectively,” Tusk said. He stressed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":563891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6b173616eaa.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tusk: Most Likely We Are Dealing With a Kh-101 Missile"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}