A drone believed to be used for smuggling crashed in a field near Majdan-Sielec, close to Zamość in Poland’s Lublin region, roughly 50 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Police in Tomaszów County said they received a report via the national emergency number around 5:40 p.m. on Saturday about unidentified debris found at the site.
Overnight from Saturday to Sunday, Russia carried out a drone attack on Ukraine. After midnight local time, a Ukrainian monitoring group reported that one unmanned aerial vehicle had left Volyn and was flying toward Zamość. A local landowner later told Polish outlet Interia that at about 2 a.m. a whistling sound and then an impact woke the household; the following day they discovered a drone in the field while working. The owner’s son said the device bore an inscription in Russian. According to unofficial accounts, the wreckage fell roughly 500 meters from the nearest buildings.
Poland’s Operational Command said it activated all necessary procedures to safeguard national airspace during the overnight attacks, placing ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance on the highest state of readiness.
The Military Police subsequently stated that the downed device was an unarmed smuggling drone with no military characteristics. An investigation into the incident and the drone’s provenance is ongoing.
