38% of Poles dissatisfied with government response to Russian missile incident in Lublin region

Almost 38% of Poles assess the state's actions negatively following the fall of a Russian missile on Polish territory.

The SW Research survey for Onet posed the following question: "How do you assess the speed of the Polish state's response to the incursion of a Russian missile onto our territory on 30 July 2026?"

Negative responses account for a significant share – 21.2% believe the authorities handled the situation very poorly, and 16.6% believe they handled it poorly, totalling 37.8% of dissatisfied respondents.

Only 9% of respondents believe the state's response to the missile incident was very good. 18.5% consider it to have been good, amounting to a combined 27.5% of respondents satisfied with the authorities' actions.

A total of 22.8% indicated they were "moderately" satisfied with the response, while 11.9% were unable to give a definitive answer.

Polish investigators have confirmed that a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile, manufactured in the second quarter of 2026 at a factory in Moscow Oblast, crashed in the Lublin Voivodeship on 30 July.

Polish Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk stated that a Ukrainian pilot tracked the Russian Kh-101 missile until the very last moment, but was unable to shoot it down and was forced to turn back 20 seconds from the border.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said there are no grounds to believe Poland was the target.