Alliance member Poland said it would demand an explanation from the Russian ambassador.
It was Russia's third big missile attack on Ukraine in the past four days, and the second to target the capital, Kyiv.
The object entered near Oserdow, a village in an agricultural region near the border with Ukraine, and stayed in Polish airspace for 39 seconds, the statement said. It wasn't immediately clear if Russia intended for the missile to enter Poland's airspace. Cruise missiles are able to change their trajectory to evade air defence systems.
He said the missile penetrated Polish airspace about a kilometre or two as Russia was targeting the region around Lviv in western Ukraine. Andrzej Szejna, a deputy foreign minister, told the TVN24 broadcaster that the foreign ministry intended to summon the Russian ambassador to Poland and hand him a protest note.
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