Warhead From Missile That Flew From Belarus Found In Poland

The “stuffing” was quite unexpected though.

In Poland, they found a warhead from a Russian missile that allegedly flew in from Belarus in December and fell near Bydgoszcz in the north of the country. It turned out to be made of concrete, Paweł Szrot, head of the Office of the President of Poland, told Polsat News.

“As for the warhead (from a missile that fell near Bydgoszcz — edit.), it was found, it is being investigated by the relevant institutions. It is special because it is made of concrete,” said Paweł Szrot.

The official shared his assumptions that the warhead could have been specially installed in this form— “so that this old model of the missile could mislead the Ukrainian air defense”.

As the head of the office of the president assured, there were no explosives in it.

Paweł Szrot added that the missile “cannot fly without a warhead, so someone installed such a pinnacle of Russian technical thought there.”

At the end of April, fragments of an “unidentified military object” were found in a forest near Bydgoszcz in northern Poland, but without a warhead.

Immediately after the find, the journalists stated that the elements of the projectile allegedly had inscriptions in Russian. Because of this, a version appeared that the missile was launched from a Polish test site, for example, during exercises or tests of air defense systems.

However, later experts came to the conclusion that the wreckage belonged to the Russian Kh-55 cruise missile. It could have flown to Poland from the eastern border, in particular from Belarus, in December last year — then the Russians carried out a massive shelling of the territory of Ukraine, including from aircraft stationed in our country.

At the same time, Polish radars spotted an object that arrived from Belarus. The military tracked it until it was lost in the vicinity of Bydgoszcz, a couple of kilometers from where a bystander found the wreckage in late April.

The Kh-55 air-to-ground cruise missiles were produced back in Soviet times. They can fly up to 3 thousand kilometers and are used as carriers of nuclear warheads.