Regarding Western allegations that Russia had attacked Poland with drones, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that no evidence has been provided linking the UAVs that had fallen on Poland to Russia. Russia’s Chargé d’Affaires in Warsaw Andrey Ordash told RIA Novosti that when he was summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry this morning, the Polish authorities did not provide any evidence that the downed UAVs belonged to Russia. Apparently, they did not think it relevant. Ordash also made note that the drones had flown into Poland from Ukraine.
Shortly afterwards, Russia’s Ministry of Defense made clear that they targeted nothing in Poland, but that they are prepared to meet with Poland’s Ministry of Defense over any concerns that they have. Their statement, machine-translated, says that:
“Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range land-based, sea- and air-based weapons, as well as attack unmanned aerial vehicles on enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr regions, as well as in the cities of Vinnytsia and Lviv. These enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex carried out the production and repair of armored and aviation equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the production of engines and electronic components for them, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles.
“On the southern and southwestern outskirts of the city of Lviv, the workshops of the Lviv Armored Plant, in which armored vehicles were repaired and modernized, as well as the Lviv Aircraft Plant LDARZ, where long-range unmanned aerial vehicles were produced and combat aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repaired, were hit. The objectives of the strike have been achieved. All designated objects have been hit.
“Targets for destruction on the territory of Poland were not planned. The maximum flight range of the Russian UAVs used in the strike, which allegedly crossed the border with Poland, does not exceed 700 km. Nevertheless, we are ready to hold consultations on this topic with the Polish Ministry of Defense.”
