On the weekend 2 unidentified flying objects fell to Poland: in the Terespol and Majdan-Sielec area. Most likely no of them were armed. – Our defence systems are operating in a state of highest readiness – provides the Operations Command of the RSZ. Today, the heads of MON and MSWIA discussed how to seal the Polish airspace.
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The first find was reported to the police on Saturday around 6:00 p.m. The facility was accidentally found by a field owner close Zamość, Lublin, about 50 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, in Majdan-Silec. Nobody got hurt. Police have secured the area. All applicable services, including the military, were notified – informed PAP podinsp. Andrzej Fijolek, spokesperson for the Lublin police.
The object fell on the fields about 500 metres from the buildings. Police and another services, including the Military Police Department, were assigned to the site, which secured fragments of the broken machine. “This is most likely a drone about the construction of mainly Styrofoam,” said prosecutor Rafal Kawalec, spokesperson for the Zamość territory Attorney’s Office on Saturday. He added that the preliminary examination showed that it was not a military-type object and that there was no evidence of any explosion. No explosive residue was found either.
Investigators are investigating. It may be a smuggling drone that most likely flew to Poland from Ukraine. There were Cyrillic inscriptions on the remains of the machines. The investigation is conducted by the Zamość territory Attorney's Office, which is to find the origin of the drone, the direction from which it came and the intent of its flight. It's possible the device crashed due to a deficiency of fuel.
Janusz Seymej, the spokesperson of the MON, gave akin information on Saturday. He assured that the drone that crashed under Zamość had no military features. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence besides admitted that it is most likely a smuggling drone. This was besides confirmed by the X Military Police Platform. – Soldiers from the Military Gendarmerie in Zamość together with police officers from the KPP in Hrubieszów secured the location of the discovery of the drone in Majdan-Silec. The first findings show that it is an unarmed smuggling drone – the Communication states. On Monday, Colonel Paweł Durka, the press spokesperson for the Chief Office of the General Office, added that the case is now being dealt with by the prosecution.
Border defender and Mystery Find
It is not the only flying object that fell in Poland this weekend. Last night the remains of specified a device were found by the Border defender in the Bial district, in the border crossing area with Belarus in Terespol, in Polatycze. On Sunday before 22.00 p.m., the on-call officer of the Terespol police station received a notification from SG officers about a disturbing find in the cornfield. "All the services have been notified of the incident. The territory Attorney's Office in Biała Podlaska was besides notified – police officers from Biała Podlaska wrote in a communication on platform X. No 1 was injured. The scene of the incidental was secured, and the Military Police besides works there. “ZW performs safety activities in cooperation with the police and Border defender to safe the site of the incidental and gather evidence,” confirms Colonel Durka.
As she passed on to RMF Proc this morning. Agnieszka Kępka, spokeswoman of the territory Attorney's Office in Lublin, the drone fell about 300 metres from the border crossing. – The territory Prosecutor's Office in Lublin, the department for military affairs, will conduct the proceedings – Prok. Kępka announced. She besides reported that the drone was most likely unarmed and had Cyrillic inscriptions. Let us remind you that little than 3 weeks ago, on the night of August 19-20, a military drone exploded in Osina, Lublin.
MON and MSWiA together against drones
In connection with incidents involving drones in fresh weeks, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence, and Marcin Kierwiński, Minister of Interior and Administration met on Monday. The chiefs of the resorts discussed ways of sealing the Polish airspace and introducing systems that had previously detected drones. “Our ground defense, anti-aircraft and radio-location systems are operating in a state of highest readiness, this immense effort of the full air force is intended to guarantee the safety of citizens,” said Colonel Jacek Goryszewski, spokesperson for the Operations Command of the Armed Forces.
A decoy drone and a smuggling drone?
The officer admitted that the first week of September was very intense for air defence as the Russian Federation carried out mass attacks on Ukraine. – Over 2,000 drones were launched this week towards Ukraine, only at night from 6th to 7th September more than 800 drones were utilized – the spokesperson for DORSZ said. He assured that whenever intelligence or Ukrainian partners arrive, our systems are raised to the highest readiness. The spokesperson for the Command said that there is no information about the presence of additional facilities over Poland.
Janusz Seymej, spokesperson for the MON, said that all signals about possible breach of the Polish airspace are thoroughly checked. As he stressed, the Russians can thus test the effectiveness of our air defence systems. “We do not exclude that drones appear over Poland damaged in the territory of Ukraine, which lose the course and which may lose contact with GPS”, he said during the briefing. In his opinion, the most crucial thing is that both drones were not armed and carried no traces of explosives. most likely the object found close Therespol was a decoy drone. “There is simply a full-sized armed conflict going on beyond the east border, so let us remember that specified situations in which objects violate our airspace can and will happen,” said Karolina Gałecka, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior. As she assured, the Ministry of Administration and Home Affairs operates in cooperation with MON and the military to detect specified facilities as early as possible.
