Preliminary investigations suggest that a device that exploded in an eastern Poland corn field was likely a military drone, a Polish prosecutor has declared.
Earlier, police said that an unidentified object had fallen in a field in the village of Osiny in the eastern Lublin province, just over 100 km (62 miles) from the Ukrainian border, some 90 km from Belarus.
“Examination of the explosion indicates that the … object is most likely a military drone,” Lublin regional prosecutor Grzegorz Trusiewicz told reporters.
PAP, the Polish State news agency, cited a person close to the defence ministry as saying that the drone, which had no warhead, contained a small amount of explosives and was most likely a decoy.
Deputy Prime Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, who serves as defence minister, compared the incident to similar instances where Russian drones had flown into Lithuania and Romania. Â
Windows were shattered in several homes, but no-one was injured by the blast, according to PAP. Police found burnt metal and plastic debris at the site of impact.
In 2022, a stray Ukrainian missile struck the southern Polish village of Przewodow, killing two people.
