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11:10 19.09.2025 •
A house in Poland was destroyed after an American defense missile fell.
Photo: Reuters
A missile reportedly fired from a Polish F-16 fighter jet struck a residential house in eastern Poland’s Lublin region, not a Russian drone as initially suspected, according to a report published Tuesday by local daily Rzeczpospolita.
The incident occurred in the village of Wyryki Wola, near the Belarusian border, where what prosecutors initially described as an “unidentified flying object” caused significant damage to a private home.
The newspaper, citing sources within Polish security services, said the projectile was an AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile. The missile was reportedly launched during an attempt to intercept a Russian drone, but suffered a guidance system failure and went off course.
According to the report, the missile did not explode due to its safety fuse mechanism, which remained engaged. The house’s elderly residents survived the incident, despite the roof being torn off and debris crashing through the ceiling.
The Lublin prosecutor's office, which is investigating the case, has refrained from confirming the missile’s origin, stating only that the object has not yet been officially identified.
"At this point, I can't definitively say what fell on the house in Wyryki. It's under investigation, and we're waiting for expert opinions," prosecutor Agnieszka Kepka told reporters.
The incident followed last week's unprecedented violation of Polish airspace by ‘Russian drones’. Most of the drones, described by Polish experts as "decoys," caused no damage, though several were intercepted by Polish air defenses.
A house in Poland was destroyed after an American missile defense missile fell.
Photo: lublin.se.pl
Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki demanded to know whether an air-to-air missile fired by one of its F-16 fighters during last week’s Russian drone incursion destroyed a house. The calls for an investigation follow a Polish media report that an AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) fired at a drone, went off course and caused the damage.
Nawrocki “expects the government to promptly clarify the incident in the town of Wyry,” the Polish National Security Bureau (BBN) stated on X . “It is within the Government’s purview to utilize all tools and institutions to resolve this matter as quickly as possible.”
Shortly after the drone incursion became public, Polish officials showed pictures of a house in Wyry that had been destroyed during the wave of about 19 drones.
“It was an AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile from our F-16, which experienced a guidance system malfunction during flight and failed to fire,” the Polish RMF24 news outlet reported on Tuesday, citing an anonymous state security agency source. “Fortunately, it did not arm or explode because the fuse safety devices were activated.”
The publication said a former Polish military intelligence officer emphasized that the damage to the house was caused by kinetic impact.
“There was no explosion, no detonation, as can be seen in the photos of the destroyed house,” Lt. Col. Maciej Korowaj explained.
The AIM-120 has about a 40-pound blast fragmentation warhead.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and other officials say Russia deliberately sent those weapons across the border during a massive attack on Ukraine.
Russian officials, meanwhile, claimed they did not target Poland.
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