Ukraine shells a Polish border town to get NATO to go to war with Russia
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I think that's the wrong argument to make, since the S-300 is a Soviet weapon system that could be in possession of either side. The S-300 uses radar-guided surface-to-air missiles - the kind of missile that you would fire to intercept a missile strike, not one that would be fired as part of that missile strike. Since it landed nowhere near Russia, during a Russian missile strike, the reasonable assumption would be that it was a defensively fired Ukrainian missile that crashed in Poland by accident.
It's an Ukrainian SAM, its entire flight was tracked by NATO from the air and by Polish radars from the ground too.
The Americans talked about it officially (Biden no less) and unoficially (media leaks) already, the official Polish statement will be in the morning (that is about now) and no doubt it will be the same version.
The General Command already made excuses why the missile couldn't be intercepted, which is because "no country has active air defense systems covering the entire territory" (and it was farmland countryside with no critical infrastructure). https://twitter.com/DGeneralneRSZ/status/1592769476801748992
Honestly they should rather point out that it fell right at the border and they would have to deliberately fire across the border (and they obviously don't have permission for that).
Just because a weapon platform is from a specific nation doesn't mean that the independently made variants are identical.
Hell even within a nation there are subtle differences between factories making the same weapon in some cases.