Warsaw, Sept. 18 -- A residential building in the small Polish town of Gmina Wyryki, located in the Lublin Voivodeship, was struck by a missile fired from the Polish Air Force F-16, officials confirmed, exposing a rare and alarming error in military operations. Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland's minister-coordinator of special services, acknowledged the incident during a broadcast on TVN24, saying that preliminary evidence indicated a missile, rather than a drone, had hit the structure.

Russia said its forces had been striking Ukraine at the time of the drone incursions and that it had not intended to hit targets in Poland. Vasily Nebenzya Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations said the maximum range of the drones used did not ...