WARSAW, Sept 6 (Reuters) – An object likely to be a smuggling drone fell in eastern Poland, a defence ministry spokesperson said on Saturday.
The spokesperson said that the object did not appear to be a military drone and police would provide further details later.
A spokesperson for local police confirmed that an object had fallen around 500 metres from buildings in the village of Majdan-Sielec in the Lublin region of eastern Poland, but was unable to confirm what it was.
Police said in a post on X that nobody was injured.
Poland has been on high alert for objects entering its airspace since a stray Ukrainian missile struck a southern Polish village in 2022, killing two people, a few months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In August, a drone crashed into a cornfield in eastern Poland. A prosecutor investigating the incident said at the time it appeared to have entered Poland from the direction of Belarus, an ally of Russia.
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