Polish general: Russian may have fired missile into Polish airspace to test NATO response

Poland will demand explanations from Moscow after a Russian missile violated the Polish airspace during the mass attack against Ukraine on the morning of March 24, the Polish Foreign Ministry said.
Poland, a NATO member, scrambled fighter jets to protect its airspace as Russian forces launched another large-scale aerial attack on Ukraine.
The Russian cruise missile entered Poland's airspace for 39 seconds, Jacek Siewiera, chief of Poland’s National Security Bureau, said on X. He also said the NATO allies had been briefed about yet another violation of the NATO border by a Russian cruise missile.
The Polish Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Pawel Wronski called on Russia to stop its “terrorist air attacks on the people and territory of Ukraine, to end the war and address the country's internal problems.”
According to a Polish general Stanislaw Koziej. Russia may have deliberately fired a missile into NATO member Poland's airspace in a weekend test of the country and alliance's defenses, said.
"Such situations may be deliberately provoked by the enemy in order to test the Polish air defense system," Stanislaw Koziej said in an interview with Polish Press Agency.
"You never know what a rocket like that can do," Koziej said. "All the more so because they are often dual-purpose missiles that can carry a nuclear charge," the former head of Poland's National Security Bureau added.
"Moreover, the Russians may want to use the border airspace, while also violating the Polish border, to attack Ukrainian objects with cruise missiles from the west, where air defense is probably weaker," he said in the interview.
"The situation now requires very decisive actions. In my opinion, the only remedy to protect Polish airspace and Polish territory against this type of event is the establishment by NATO of an anti-missile defense zone extended in front of the Polish border, over the territory of Ukraine," he added.