[Widget Jr]

The photos just need to be deliberately mislabeled, not faked. They are likely real S300 parts, maybe not where the person who first posted them says they are.

According to McBeth, the crater means at least a 400 kg warhead. That is cruise missile size, not surface to air missile size.

There are hundreds of detonated S-300s littering Ukraine. There is only one 400 kg high explosive sized crater in Poland.

[NorseViking]

What do you mean by mislabeled? A stock photo uploaded to illustrate the event? I have seen several photos already and they all show the same parts. Regarding the crater how do you know? It definitely doesn’t look like produced by a cruise missile. 400 kg of TNT is a big boom. False flag plain and simple. Not the first one.

[FtrPilot]

According to McBeth, the crater means at least a 400 kg warhead. That is cruise missile size, not surface to air missile size.

S-300 missiles are big...some of them have more HE than a 500 pound GP bomb. If the ground is soft, then a 500 pound GP bomb could make a crater the size in the picture.

Analysis by picture is sketchy at best.

Assuming it was an S-300 missile, then what I can't understand is why it didn't self destruct when it lost track on the target.

If it was an S-300 missile, then it is most certainly Ukrainian since the missiles don't have the range to fly from eastern Ukraine to Poland.