Poland needs its own anti-missile shield after the U.S. has scrapped plan in East Europe 0608123.

The US had scrapped plans to deploy an anti-ballistic-missile defence shield in the Czech Republic and Poland in September 2010.

"Our mistake was that while accepting the US proposal, we have not taken into account a political risk related to the change of the US president. We have paid a too high political price for that," Komorowski said.

Poland needs its own anti-missile shield and it must be a part of the existing European missile defence system, he said in an interview with Wprost magazine published Saturday.

"We must have this element of the Polish defence (missile defence system). Spending large sums on military hardware is actually meaningless if it is not secured from the missile attack and air raids," he added.