During a Russian drone attack on Poland, a house in the village of Wyrki-Wola near Lublin was damaged. According to the prosecutor’s office, debris from an “unidentified flying object” struck the building, damaging the roof and ceiling. However, new information obtained by Rzeczpospolita suggests the damage may not have been caused by a drone. Instead, it could have resulted from a missile launched by a Polish F-16, intended to intercept the drone but diverted from its target due to a guidance system failure. The Ministry of Defense has so far declined to comment.
The incident took place after last week’s unprecedented incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace. Debris from 17 drones was found across different areas of eastern Poland, most of them so-called “decoys” that caused no damage. The exception was in the village of Wyrki-Wola in Lublin Voivodeship’s Włodawa County, not far from the Belarusian border. There, an “unidentified object” destroyed part of a private home. The residents escaped injury: the homeowner told reporters she left the bedroom just seconds before metal fragments struck the room.
While experts were quick to identify drone debris in all other cases, prosecutors have declined to provide details about this particular object. Officially, it has not been classified as either a drone or drone components. “At this point, I cannot say definitively what fell on the house in Wyrki. This is under investigation, and we are awaiting the expert’s findings,” said Agnieszka Kępka, spokesperson for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin. The final assessment is expected from a specialized expert in military weaponry.
Local authorities have also withheld details. “Our responsibility is to coordinate actions on the ground. Determining the facts, securing evidence, identifying the object, establishing its technical characteristics, and clarifying whether it entered, exited, was shot down, or fell on its own – these are handled by the appropriate services,” said Krzysztof Komorski, Voivode of Lublin.
According to Rzeczpospolita, findings indicate that the object was an AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile fired from a Polish F-16. It was launched to intercept a Russian drone but veered off course due to a guidance system malfunction. Sources told the outlet that the missile, roughly 3 meters long and weighing over 150 kilograms, did not detonate because its safety mechanisms functioned properly.
Former Polish military intelligence officer Lt. Col. Maciej Korowaj noted that the incident involved a kinetic strike. Photos of the damaged house confirm there was no explosion. The local community is supporting the affected family by providing temporary housing and organizing fundraising efforts for repairs.
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Source: rp
