Polish missile hit house during Russian drone incursion, says minister

The object that hit a house in an eastern Polish village earlier this month was likely a missile fired by a Polish aircraft that was intended to shoot down Russian drones in the NATO-member's airspace, a government minister said on Wednesday.

Polish authorities initially said the home in the village of Wyryki-Wola had likely been hit by one of the 21 Russian drones that entered Poland's airspace on the night of September 9-10.

However, Rzeczpospolita daily reported on Tuesday, citing sources, that the house was hit by a missile fired from a Polish F-16 fighter jet whose guidance system malfunctioned.

"Everything indicates that it was a missile fired by our plane, defending Poland, defending the fatherland, defending our citizens," the Minister Responsible for Poland's Special Services Tomasz Siemoniak told TVN24.