New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- WARSAW - The night ended with a crater.

the first projectile from Moscow's military operation to detonate on the soil of a NATO member state.

No one in Poland was hurt. Eight people in Ukraine, including children, died in the same barrage of Russian ballistic missiles and drones that produced the Tarnawa-Kolonia impact.

Poland's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, traveled to the impact site by midday, standing at the edge of the crater. "Everything indicates," he told reporters, that the object was a Russian missile. What he did not say, and what no official said on Thursday, was whether the missile had been deliberately aimed at Polish soil or had traveled there by accident, or by some other trajectory that remains unex...