Such plans were announced by District Prosecutor Grzegorz Trusiewicz, who said at a Wednesday late-afternoon press conference that the object which exploded overnight in a cornfield in Osiny, eastern Lublin province - just over 100 km (62 miles) from the Ukrainian border and around 90 km from Belarus - was “a sizable military drone,” with inscriptions on its engine “probably in Korean.”
Trusiewicz added that investigators have already gathered substantial evidence and questioned around ten people. Search operations for drone debris are continuing over an area of 2–3 hectares. At one critical stage, up to 150 personnel were involved, including police, military gendarmerie, firefighters, and Territorial Defence Forces soldiers.
The blast also damaged two nearby houses, shattering windows and damaging roof sections and frames - one located just several dozen meters from the site, the other about 150 meters away. Local authorities assured that the owners of the damaged properties will receive financial support, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Polish officials point to possible Russian involvement
Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday that “we are dealing with a provocation by the Russian Federation, with a Russian drone.”
Gen. Dariusz Malinowski, who accompanied him at the press conference, added that the device carried a small, non-military explosive and widely available commercial components, suggesting it may have been used as a decoy to test defenses.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said via social media that the latest violation of Poland’s airspace from the East underscores that the country’s top mission within NATO is to defend its own territory.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Pawel Wronski told Reuters that the findings so far, along with expert analysis, suggest the drone involved in the latest incident may have been a Russian version of the Shahed drone developed by Iran.
The Foreign Ministry announced it will send a diplomatic protest note to Russia over the airspace violation.
Osiny, eastern Poland, August 20, 2025 Photo: PAP/Wojtek Jargiło
An object had fallen on Wednesday, August 20, in a field in the village of Osiny in eastern Poland's Lublin province.
On the scene from the morning of Wednesday, 20 August, representative of Polish and international media have been gathering around the cornfield. Photo: PAP/Wojtek Jargiło
Since the morning of Wednesday, 20 August, authorities have been investigating a military drone that reportedly crashed in a cornfield in Osiny, near Poland’s eastern border. Photo: PAP/Wojtek Jargiło
Photo: PAP/Wojtek Jargiło
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Source: IAR/PAP/Reuters/MON/MSZ
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