Politics

Poland's defense bill is NATO's biggest, so why couldn't it stop one missile? [ANALYSIS]

Stuart Dowell
 31.07.2026, 17:11
The crater left by a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile at Tarnawa-Kolonia, forty-five kilometers from where Zelenskyy and Tusk had met. Photo: AP/Wojtek Jargiło
The crater left by a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile at Tarnawa-Kolonia, forty-five kilometers from where Zelenskyy and Tusk had met. Photo: AP/Wojtek Jargiło

Poland's Patriots guard Warsaw but the missile landed 350 kilometers to the east.