On Monday, September 8, a prosecutor in Poland announced that border guards near the Belarus border found the wreckage of a drone in a village. This incident is the latest in a series of similar events recently occurring in Poland, a NATO member country that shares a border with Ukraine.
Local police previously posted on Facebook, stating, “Before 10 p.m. on September 7, officers on duty at the Terespol Police Station received a report from border guard personnel that debris of an unidentified flying object was found near the Polatycze village, close to the Terespol border crossing.”
“We have sealed off the area. The incident did not cause any casualties.”
Agnieszka Kepka from the Lublin Prosecutor’s Office in eastern Poland stated on Monday that the drone crashed near the border checkpoint in Polatycze village, approximately 300 meters away from the checkpoint. “The drone was not equipped with weapons and had Cyrillic markings on its body.”
She mentioned during a press conference that military police are questioning witnesses and reviewing surveillance data to clarify the drone’s flight path.
In 2022, after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a stray missile hit a village in southern Poland, resulting in two fatalities. Since then, Poland has maintained high alert against any objects invading its airspace.
A spokesperson from the Polish Ministry of Defense mentioned that an object that crashed in eastern Poland on September 6, was likely a drone used for smuggling, not a weapon.
Last month, a military drone crashed in a maize field in eastern Poland, burning crops and shattering windows of nearby houses. A prosecutor investigating the incident suggested that the drone likely entered Poland from its Russian ally, Belarus.
Poland is not the only country where wreckage of military drones has been found. Incidents of military drone crashes have also occurred in Romania and Baltic States.
(Translated from the original report on Epoch Times)