The drone that crashed in a field in the village of Osiny in eastern Poland on the night of August 20 is a Russian version of the Shahed drone.
This was reported by TVP World, citing Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Paweł Wroński.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski wrote on social media: “Another violation of our airspace from the East confirms that Poland’s most important mission within NATO is the defense of our own territory.”
Earlier, a source in the Ministry of Defense in Warsaw told the state agency PAP that the object that fell in a Polish village was a military drone, most likely a decoy, but without a warhead.
According to the source, the drone contained only a small amount of explosives and was designed to attract air defense systems, distracting them from real strike drones.
Police said they received a call shortly after 2 a.m. on Wednesday about an “explosion” in Osiny, a village about 100 kilometers west of the Polish-Ukrainian border.
“In a cornfield, we found charred debris of various sizes scattered within a radius of several dozen meters. These are charred remains of metal and plastic,” Senior Sergeant Marcin Juwik of the Luków region police told PAP.
The explosion shattered windows in several houses, but no one was injured, he added.
The Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, citing its own sources, reported that the drone was a Shahed-131 or Shahed-136 – an Iranian-made kamikaze attack drone, which, according to data, Russia used during night attacks on Ukraine.