WASHINGTON (AP) — US officials: Initial findings suggest missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at incoming Russian missile.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 16, 2022
Unfortunate if true, since it's a Russian produced missile then it would likely be the S-300 (operated by both Russia & Ukraine but Russian made) which was fired at an incoming Russian cruise missile, missed its target, veered off course and landed into Poland, since it's Russian made I'd assume there's no failsafe or it simply broke.
Nevertheless, if these findings are true, I hope Ukraine isn't defensive because they have no reason to worry, it's still fully Russia's fault, Ukraine never would have had to fire an anti-missile system if Russia wasn't throwing cruise missiles all across Ukraine, especially at non-military infrastructure and close to the Poland's border.
NATO still needs to respond, firstly by supplying Ukraine with even more anti-missile systems, I'm not saying they can't have failures like Russian produced ones can but so far, everything we've seen in this war is Western equipment significantly outperforming Russian equipment on a quality basis so providing Ukraine with even more AA will decrease the odds of this happening again in the future.
And secondly to decrease it further, they should be sending Ukraine better equipment all round, such as more modern jets, tanks and better missile systems such as ATACMS so we can end this war on a quicker timescale, the faster it ends, the better for the whole world, not just Poland but now especially Poland.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 16 November 2022
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