The house in the village of Wyryki in eastern Poland was not hit by a Russian drone, but by a missile fired from a Polish F-16 fighter jet during an operation against these unmanned aircraft that penetrated Polish airspace last week, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported on its website, citing its sources. According to the newspaper, the prosecutor's office is concealing information about the"unidentified flying object" whose debris hit the house in question and damaged it, and the Polish Ministry of Defense is also officially silent.

All responsibility for the damage to the house lies with Russia as the originator of the provocation, Prime Minister Donald Tusk responded, promising that the relevant authorities would inform the public, the government and the president after the investigation is complete. “Hands off the Polish soldiers,” the Prime Minister wrote on social media. “Nobody has any reservations about the soldiers, it is not their fault that the missile failed. We have reservations about your government, which misinformed,” opposition politician Slawomir Mentzen replied to the Prime Minister.

Most of the seventeen drones – or their wreckage – found in Poland were, according to the newspaper, “decoys” used to confuse air defenses. They did not cause any damage in Poland. The exception was the damaged private house in the village of Wyryki, located not far from the border with Belarus. The “unidentified flying object”, as the prosecutor’s office calls it, damaged the roof and pierced the ceiling of the building. The residents were unharmed, and the owner of the house managed to leave the bedroom before the metal fragments fell into it.

Rzeczpospolita claims that the house was hit by a three-meter anti-aircraft missile weighing more than 150 kilograms fired from a Polish F-16. The newspaper recalled that, according to the deputy defense minister, the fighters shot down three drones.

"It was an AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile from our F-16, which had a malfunctioning guidance system during the flight. Fortunately, it did not detonate and explode because the fuses of the detonator worked," said one of the unnamed sources."There was a Russian airstrike, the Polish side defended itself," he recalled the circumstances under which the fighters launched the missiles.

According to the expert contacted, the nature of the damage to the house makes it clear that the damage was caused by kinetic energy, not an explosion.

The President will ask the government for clarification.

The prosecutor's office, with the support of experts, easily identified the wreckage of seventeen drones, but does not want to talk about what fell in Wyryki."The object has not been recognized as a drone or its wreckage at this time," she said."At this moment, I cannot say what fell on the house in the village of Wyryki, that is the subject of an investigation, we are waiting for the opinion of experts," a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, which is investigating the drone raid on Poland, told the newspaper. An opinion from an expert in the field of military weapons is awaited. The spokeswoman admitted that the inspection of the crime scene brought some answers, but according to her, the person responsible for conducting the investigation decided that this was not information that she could now pass on to the media.

President Karol Nawrocki announced after the newspaper published the latest information that he would demand clarification from the government.

The newspaper wonders why the prosecutor's office and the army are concealing seemingly neutral information about what destroyed the house of an elderly couple. The couple was helped by the municipality, which provided them with alternative accommodation and is collecting money to repair the house, the cost of which it has tentatively estimated at 50 thousand zlotys (about 286 thousand crowns). The authorities in the region have also informed the couple about the help.

"As part of the compensation, the soldiers will clean up and repair the damaged house. The repairs will be paid for and carried out by the Polish army," a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense assured, according to Gazeta Wyborcza. He added that the local association of rescue dog breeders has meanwhile raised more than 53,000 zlotys (over 300,000 crowns) for the couple Ala and Tomasz Weselowska in an online fundraiser to repair their house.