Poland accuses Russia of 'provocation'
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Russian drone crashes in Polish field; Warsaw protests airspace violation and plans formal complaint
A drone believed to be a Russian Shahed variant hit the Osiny village in Poland's Lublin province, shattering windows in homes but causing no injuries to residents.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An unidentified flying object crashed into a cornfield and exploded in eastern Poland early Wednesday, the country’s news agency PAP reported.
Polish prosecutors' early reports indicate that the drone which crashed overnight into a cornfield in Lublin Voivodeship was a military UAV. Source: European Pravda citing RMF FM Details: A team of five prosecutors and experts from various fields is inspecting the maize field in the village of Osiny,
"Due to the ongoing events in Ukraine, the ongoing conflict, and Poland's role in logistically securing the transfer to Ukraine (...), the Netherlands has declared support for systems securing our airspace and air defence systems," Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told a news conference, welcoming the Dutch decision.
Poland's Minister of National Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz voiced the three most probable hypotheses regarding the overnight explosion in a village in Lublin voivodeship. His words are quoted by RMF24.
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Object that exploded in Polish field could be drone or sabotage-related, defence minister says
Polish officials said on Wednesday they were not ruling out that an object that exploded overnight in a field in eastern Poland was a Russian or smuggling drone, or a case of sabotage, though they had not detected anything entering Polish airspace.
An unidentified object fell into a cornfield and exploded overnight in the village of Osiny in eastern Poland's Lublin province, PAP newswire reported on Wednesday. Police officers found burnt metal and plastic debris at the spot,