Allied war planes scrambled to 'ensure the security' of Polish airspace after the incursion of the missile at 4.23am local time.
A Russian cruise missile flew over NATO territory for 39 seconds overnight triggering a major alert amid fears over an escalation of the war in Ukraine.
The military said the missile travelled about 1.2miles into Polish territory and that Polish and allied aircraft had been activated, but that the airspace over Poland was now safe. There were huge explosions in the city believed to be from Storm Shadow missiles, the kind supplied to Ukraine by the UK The Polish Armed Forces claim that the Russian missile entered the country's airspace to a depth of one and a quarter miles.
Meanwhile Ukraine subjected Russian-annexed Sevastopol in Crimea to one of the heaviest bombardments of the 25-month war.
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