(Adnkronos) – An unidentified object exploded last night in a field in the village of Osiny, in eastern Poland, about 120 km from the Ukrainian border and 100 km from the Belarusian border. According to initial investigations, it would be a military drone, perhaps Russian. This was stated by the region’s prosecutor, Grzegorz Trusiewicz, commenting on the initial findings at the site of the explosion. The authorities are not yet able to confirm the origin of the drone because “the entire incident is being verified,” the prosecutor said, adding that there are three hypotheses, none of which “can be excluded: a Belarusian drone, a Russian drone, a drone used for smuggling or an act of sabotage that may have taken place on Polish territory.”
Police officers found burnt metal and plastic debris on the spot and the wreckage of the object will be carefully collected and analyzed in the laboratory, the prosecutor assured, adding that it is believed that the drone exploded due to the material it was carrying, although the authorities are also evaluating the hypothesis of a collision incident with high-voltage power lines. The explosion, captured by some surveillance cameras in the area, shattered the windows of nearby houses, but no one was injured in the impact, reported the Pap news agency which, citing sources from the Ministry of Defense, stated that it was most likely a military decoy drone without a warhead.
The newspaper Rzeczpospolita revealed that it would be a Russian Shahed-type drone, regularly used by Russian forces in raids against Ukraine. Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz compared the episode to recent sightings of Russian drones flying over Lithuania and Romania.
