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Poland has condemned Russia after a missile crossed into its airspace last week and blew a 33-foot crater into a farm field.

Some shit you should know before you dig in: Throughout the war between Russia and Ukraine, we have occasionally seen incidents where Russian drones, missiles, and other shit cross into NATO territory. Last September, NATO aircraft downed several Russian drones in Polish airspace, which pushed the Polish government to beef up its air defenses. Estonia and Latvia both reported drones from Russia in May, and the Latvian government fell apart amid infighting over what to do about them. Romania summoned Russia’s ambassador on Monday over repeated drone incursions.

What’s going on now: Polish officials confirmed that on Thursday their military picked up an object in Polish airspace at 3:40 AM local time. An F-16 went up to intercept, but the object vanished from radar within minutes. Residents near Tarnawa-Kolonia, a village in Lublin province about 60 miles from the Ukrainian border, reported an explosion around 4 AM. Officers located the crater an hour later, in farmland about 1.2 miles from the closest homes.

In a statement, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, “All the indications are that it was a Russian Kh-101 ballistic missile, but we want to be 100% certain about the type of missile and who launched it.” He added, “There is no reason to think the target was Poland” and that Ukrainian fighter pilots had tried to shoot down missiles heading toward the Polish border.

Despite this, Col. Michael O’Donnell, a spokesperson for the alliance’s military command, said NATO launched a pair of fighter jets along with an attack helicopter and two additional aircraft, and that Poland switched on its ground-based defenses. Secretary-General Mark Rutte called it “yet another reckless act by Russia and a dangerous consequence of its war against Ukraine.” Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said the military tracked roughly 20 objects on the edge of Polish airspace that night.

The missile was one piece of a much larger night. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia fired more than 70 missiles, many of them ballistic, along with more than 280 attack drones, over 260 of which Ukrainian defenses shot down. The strikes hit at least 10 regions. The dead include a family in Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s hometown, where a ballistic missile leveled a house.

The barrage came days after Zelenskyy met Trump at the White House to plead for faster and larger Patriot deliveries, and after Tusk met Zelenskyy in Lublin the night before. Ukraine is critically short on anti-ballistic interceptors, in part because the Iran war has drained American stockpiles. Trump had promised licenses for Ukraine to build its own Patriots, but then walked that back a day later.

In a statement, the Kremlin dismissed the reporting as “irresponsible” and repeated Moscow’s standing position that accusations of Russian airspace violations are unfounded, according to The Moscow Times. Russia’s Defense Ministry also acknowledged only the strike on Ukraine itself, saying on Telegram that it carried out a “massive strike using long-range precision weapons from land, air, and sea” along with attack drones against Ukrainian military sites, and the Russian embassy in Warsaw did not immediately respond to a request for comment.