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Poland Considers More Patriots for Ukraine. Lublin Hit by Missile Hours Earlier
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Warsaw will evaluate supplying additional Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine after a suspected Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crashed in the Lublin Voivodeship.
Tusk noted that his discussion on July 29 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who arrived in Poland the previous day, highlighted that the next 100 days could prove decisive for the outcome of the war, assessing the odds at 50 to 50, according to Ukrinform on July 30.
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The Polish Prime Minister explained that the government will quickly review additional support alongside Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
"After this incident, together with the Mr. Prime Minister, we will consider as soon as possible the issue of further assistance to Ukraine, including the transfer of next missiles for Patriot systems, if such a need arises," Tusk stated.
Addressing national airspace security, Tusk stressed that complete protection remains impossible for any nation.
"There is no such sky – neither in the US, nor in Israel, nor in Ukraine, nor in Russia – that would be one hundred percent safe," he underlined, reaffirming full backing for Polish military commanders handling aerial threats.
Tusk noted that current evidence does not indicate that "Poland was the target of the missile." Officials from the United States, European Union member states, Norway, and Ukraine have expressed readiness to assist in the investigation.
"Ukrainians also offered help in the investigation, we will use the help of their experts," Tusk added.
Poland officially confirmed the transfer of PAC-3 MSE interceptors to Ukraine, having previously supplied an initial batch of air defense missiles to Kyiv.
Official data indicated that Warsaw’s own stockpile contained 208 of these Patriot missiles prior to the delivery. Following the recent missile crash near the border in the Lublin Voivodeship, Polish officials noted that strengthening Ukraine’s air defense directly reduces the threat of stray missiles entering Polish airspace during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
On July 29, 2026, Russian forces launched an overnight aerial assault using dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, which killed eight people across Ukraine. During the attack, a strike on the settlement of Radushne near Kryvyi Rih killed at least six members of a large family and left four others missing.
Sources cited by Reuters indicated that Russia likely used a North Korean ballistic missile in the strike, marking the first suspected use of such a weapon since August 8, 2025.
Experts noted that the deployment of this missile after a long pause suggested that Moscow acquired a new stockpile of munitions to continue its strikes during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s multi-layered air defense system heavily relied on American-supplied missiles, making several critical platforms vulnerable during Washington’s suspension of deliveries.
While short-range systems like the Polish Piorun, French Mistral, and German IRIS-T SLS operated without US-made munitions, medium- and long-range defenses faced severe constraints.
Germany’s IRIS-T SLM was the only foreign medium-range system independent of American stocks, whereas widely used platforms such as NASAMS, HAWK, and Patriot depended directly on US missiles. Experts warned that prolonging supply delays endangered these key capabilities during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as stockpiles for alternative systems like the French-Italian SAMP/T and legacy Soviet units remained extremely limited.
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