WARSAW, Poland (AP) Early on Wednesday, the nation’s news agency PAP said that an unidentified flying object struck a cornfield in eastern Poland and detonated.
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According to local police, they discovered charred metal and plastic debris at the location, which is close to the village of Osiny, after receiving reports of the collision at around two in the morning. According to PAP, the explosion caused glass to break in a few homes, but no one was hurt.
On social media on Wednesday, Poland’s Armed Forces Operational Command reported that no nighttime violations of Polish airspace were detected from Belarus or neighboring Ukraine.
At first, officials speculated that a propeller-equipped portion of an old engine might have caused the explosion.
Later, according to PAP, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that the item was probably a drone and that an investigation was being conducted to ascertain whether it was a military or smuggling drone.
Grzegorz Trusiewicz, the district prosecutor for Lublin, informed reporters that a number of military and civilian investigators were looking into the crash scene.
We have the army to support us, and we have a large number of people. “I’m hoping we can complete the procedure by tonight,” Trusiewicz stated.
Numerous incursions into Polish airspace since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine over three years ago have sparked worry in the European Union and NATO member states and served as a reminder of how near the war is.
