Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in late April that he had tasked his defence minister with overseeing an investigation into a "military object" found in a forest near the north-central city of Bydgoszcz.
He also said at the time that the discovery “could be linked” to an incident in December last year when NATO F-35 aircraft and Polish fighter jets "took off to follow the trajectory" of a "rocket that entered Polish territory.”
Private broadcaster RMF FM reported on Wednesday that a preliminary study by experts from Poland's Air Force Institute of Technology had found that the object was a Russian CH-55 missile.
The Polish defence ministry said at the end of last month that “the remains of an unidentified military object have been found in the vicinity of the village of Zamość, some 15 kilometres from Bydgoszcz.”
The Polish government did not identify the object or say how long it had been there, the Reuters news agency reported at the time.
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro announced that prosecutors had launched a probe into the discovery.
Prosecutors probing the case said that "no traces of explosions or explosives were found at the site," public broadcaster Polish Radio’s polskieradio24.pl website reported.
They added in a statement that "various hypotheses regarding the secured evidence" were being investigated.
Wednesday is day 441 of Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP, polskieradio24.pl, Reuters