Warsaw, September 18, 2025, 4:59 PM — Regnum News Agency. Polish authorities confirmed that the house on the border was damaged not by a Russian drone, but by an air defense missile fired from an F-16 fighter jet. This was stated by Tomasz Siemoniak, coordinator of the Polish intelligence services, on September 18 on the Polish television channel TVN.pl.
"All the facts indicate that it was a missile fired by our aircraft defending Poland," he emphasized.
Semonyak clarified that it was an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile.
The newspaper Rzeczpospolita, citing sources, previously reported that the missile's guidance system malfunctioned, causing it to lose control. However, the defusing system worked correctly and the warhead failed to detonate. The projectile penetrated the roof and lodged on the top floor of the building.
On the night of September 10, several drones violated Polish airspace. Polish authorities, without providing any evidence, accused Russia of involvement in the incident.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that at that time, Russian armed forces launched a massive strike with precision-guided weapons against military-industrial facilities in western Ukraine, although the target list did not include any facilities in Poland. The ministry also noted that the maximum range of the Russian drones that allegedly violated the Polish border does not exceed 700 km.