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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont and agencies

Russia accused of violating Polish airspace after missile explosion near village

Emergency personnel walk along a dusty road with an ATV and vehicles near a field
Emergency crews comb the area where a missile landed near a village 50 miles from the Ukraine border. Photograph: Fot. Jakub Orzechowski/Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Reuters

Russia has been accused of violating Polish airspace, after a missile exploded in a field in the east of the country, triggering Nato air defences, in the midst of a massive air raid that killed 13 people in neighbouring Ukraine.

Polish authorities said that the explosion near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia, close to Lublin, had created a 10-metre-wide crater. Residents of Tarnawa-Kolonia reported hearing an explosion at about 4am that shook the windows of their homes, police said.

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