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Originally Posted by opendoor
It's also possible it was an air defense missile. The debris does bear some resemblance to an S-300:
Though Russia has used those for ground attacks as well. So even if it was an S-300, that doesn't mean it wasn't them (though it would have had to come from Belarus to reach Poland). And either way, when you're lobbing missiles within kilometers of a NATO nation, you're responsible for whatever happens.
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This looks more plausible with Biden saying it was "unlikely" that the missile originated from Russia:
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President Joe Biden said Wednesday it was “unlikely” that a missile that killed two in NATO-ally Poland was fired from Russia, but he pledged support for Poland’s investigation into what it had called a “Russian-made” missile.
Biden spoke after he convened an “emergency” meeting of the Group of Seven and NATO leaders in Indonesia Wednesday morning for consultations on the attack that killed two people in the eastern part of Poland near the Ukraine border.
“There is preliminary information that contests that,” Biden told reporters when asked if the missile had been fired from Russia. “It is unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia, but we’ll see.”
It was not immediately clear whether Biden was suggesting that the missile hadn’t been fired by Russia at all. Ukraine still maintains stocks of former Soviet and Russian-made weaponry, including the S-300 air-defense missile system.
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https://apnews.com/article/g-20-summ...092f5b3aec21c8
Though if that's correct, it doesn't necessarily rule out the possibility of it coming from Belarus.