According to reports by TVN24 in Poland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed that the object which fell in a cornfield in Osiny, Łuków County, on Tuesday night was a Russian drone.
He described the incident as “a provocation by the Russian Federation” taking place at a sensitive moment in wider peace discussions.
Residents in the Lublin Voivodeship reported hearing an explosion when the drone came down, but no injuries were recorded. The Polish defence ministry initially considered several possibilities, including whether it was an incoming drone, a sabotage platform, or a smuggling device.
Speaking at a press conference in Warsaw, Kosiniak-Kamysz said: “We are dealing with a provocation by the Russian Federation, with a Russian drone. We are dealing with this at a crucial moment, when discussions about peace are underway, when there is hope that this war (…) has a chance of ending. Russia is provoking once again.”
The minister stressed that while Polish airspace has been violated before, this was the first incident involving a drone. He framed it as part of Moscow’s wider hybrid strategy: “This demonstrates that Russia’s strategy, at a crucial moment—at a time when peace is being discussed, when US President Donald Trump is doing everything to achieve peace, and Ukraine is open to achieving it—continues with a provocative strategy and hybrid warfare.”
Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed that multiple agencies were mobilised following the crash, including the Internal Security Agency, the Military Counterintelligence Service, the Military Police, and the Territorial Defence Forces. NATO allies were also briefed on the development.
He added that radar systems had not detected the violation, but search operations involving helicopters and drones were underway to recover wreckage. A full report on the incident has been ordered from Poland’s operational commander.
General Dariusz Malinowski of the Polish Army provided further details, stating that a preliminary assessment indicated the device was a decoy drone. He noted that while the origin could not be confirmed with absolute certainty, such systems are typically launched from Russian territory.
Malinowski explained that the drone used a commercially available engine of Chinese manufacture and carried no warhead: “We know for sure that this is an engine available in all markets, made in China. We know for sure that there were certain systems on board, which are also available. And we also know for sure that the payload that was on board was not a large payload. It was definitely not a warhead.”
Kosiniak-Kamysz pointed out that Moscow has consistently refused to take responsibility for similar drone incidents elsewhere in Eastern Europe. “One thing is certain, Russia will never admit to this, just as it did not admit to any of the eight incidents in Moldova, three incidents in Romania, three incidents in Lithuania, two incidents in Latvia, one incident in Bulgaria with drones, not to mention planes, or missiles, the Russian Federation will not admit to this.”
The Polish government has said Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski will take diplomatic steps in response. Investigations into the incident are ongoing.
Probably a Cadet at the controls. 😁
You can’t have your ball back.
Nice Chinese commercial engines made available. Brings to mind Czech Semtex sold to terror groups
Easily bought on AliExpress and TEMU.
No seriously, go take a look.
China has essentially supported most of the core Russian military industrial capabilities, it’s probably far to say Russia would have struggled to prosecute this war without Chinese input. Essentially china build the Russian chip manufacturing from the group up, suppling almost all the equipment, it’s provides almost 100% of the consumable critical raw materials that supply the chip industry it built. Essentially china is behind pretty much every drone, missile and rebuilt MBT.
There is good reason why Xi would want Russia to stay in the fight – Taiwan. While Russia keeps fighting in Europe it keeps the Europeans focused on the threat on their door step while the US finds itself being increasingly drawn towards the east. In short, having an active war in Europe plus CRINK online disinformation campaigns trying to influence opinion in democratic countries to sow discord in, and between, nations and communities gives Xi the best chance to deal with Taiwan before the West gets fully to grip with it’s rearmament.
Cheers CR
Yep even better they have managed to political warfare it into a wedge issue between European NATO and the U.S. Its essentially a wet dream for china, win win. They keep the EU utterly focused on the beast from the east and have somehow managed to create a potential political spilt between European and the U.S. if they can keep levering away it’s quite possible Europe May end up leaving the US to it when China takes a chunk from it. That would spell the end to western hegemony.
I watched a Netflix series recently about Churchill and two comments made struck a cord. I paraphrase:
If Churchill was live today he would be sounding the alarm. (Might have been Dan Snow who said this.)
Every country expects it’s leaders to be like Churchill and so far we have come up short. (Ex President George Bush.)
These two comments sum up why the west is in the poop right up to its neck. Modern politicians are to busy dealing with crisis after crisis to be able to take time out to identify the long term trend and hence the primary threat facing them and their nations. Secondly, even if they do spot the trend and threat, they simply do to have the capacity tackle it head on and crucially to lead a nation sufficiently well enough to suffer the privations such an effort would entail. Worse I think they actually know their limitations so steer clear of dealing with it explicitly.
Leadership is one of those weird qualities that is so variable and ephemeral that it is impossible to quantify or teach. You can teach people how to make good decisions and look after people, the military usually do a good job in this regard, but true leadership requires something special that comes from deep within the human spirit and as far as I can tell it is a very rare commodity indeed.
Cheers CR
It will not happen, but it would be interesting to see what would happen if Poland threatened to send several squadrons of F-16’s, a few divisions of troops and some air defense weapons to Ukraine if Russia did not halt all military operations there. Poland is the one nation in Europe that is ready to take on Russia, because they really, really do not want to get rolled over by enemy forces again.