Poland: Unmanned aircraft entered airspace during Russian bombings in Ukraine

Its authorities reported on Monday (26.08.2024) that a “flying object”, probably a drone, remote operated aircraft ( ), entered its airspace in the early morning hours, during the Russian bombings in Ukraine. Drone may have landed on Polish territory and investigations are under way to locate it. Poland, a NATO member, is on the lookout for such “flying objects” after an uncontrolled Ukrainian missile struck the village of Prevodov, in the south, killing two people in 2022. An army spokesman, Yachek Gorishevski, told Reuters agency that the flight’s trajectory and the object’s speed suggest it was not a rocket. About 100 soldiers and a helicopter are involved in the search for him. Gorishevski stressed that it is impossible to say whether the object was Russian or Ukrainian, since weather conditions were not such as to allow its visual recognition. For the same reason, the army was unable to shoot it down, although it was ready. Earlier, speaking to reporters, the spokesman said the object entered the airspace of Poland at 07.43 (Greece time) near the Ukrainian city of Chervonohord. He was lost on radar at 8.00 and is likely to have left Poland’s airspace. In December 2023 Poland reported that a Russian rocket entered its airspace. In April of the same year an object was found in a forest near the village of Zamots and was subsequently found to be a Russian rocket. Romania has also announced that it found fragments of Russian, unmanned aircraft on its territory.