We are dealing with another provocation of the Russian Federation, with the Russian drone," said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, referring to the incidental in Lublin. Operations Command reported that the drone that exploded under Lukov did not carry the warhead was likely a decoy with a warhead for self-destruction. Service is inactive investigating the case.
National Defence Minister convened a press conference after a conference with key armed forces commanders on the The detonation that occurred last night in the village of Osina (Lubel Wars). Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed that everything points to the provocation of the Russian Federation with the usage of an unmanned aircraft, specified as had previously occurred many times in Moldova, Romania or Lithuania.
– Last night, we received reports that the western districts of Ukraine were attacked by drones. Therefore, around 22 p.m., we started standard procedures to seal our border," said General Dyw. Pil. Dariusz Malinowski, Deputy Operational Commander of the RSZ. The mark detection strategy has been launched under this operation. On alert, units were raised to combat missiles, and a Mi-24 chopper was besides picked up, which patrolled border areas. Around midnight, there was no indication that any object had breached the airspace of Poland, but in the morning there were reports of debris and burnt land in the field close Łukow. – In our opinion it was a decoy drone that did not carry a warhead, but had a warhead for self-destruction. Helicopters were immediately raised to find if there were additional blast sites in the area, characteristic of aircraft crash or drone strikes. That's not confirmed. At the moment, the ground search group is working very intensively to find the remaining remains of this drone," said General Malinowski. He added that he most likely flew very low to bypass the radio-location field. erstwhile asked if an unmanned man had been launched from Russia, the general replied that at the minute it could not be clearly stated, although the locations of the launch of this kind of drone are definitely located in Russia.
W A peculiar squad was set up to analyse the circumstances of the incident.
During the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz recalled that construction was taking place in the armed forces comprehensive anti-aircraft and rocket defence on different levels. “This is simply a process that does not happen overnight that requires many years of effort,” said the head of the MON. He mentioned fresh investments in this context, specified as purchasing Barbara aerostats, which allows to detect tiny objects moving just above the surface of the earth as well as a fewer 1000 meters above it. The first systems are scheduled for military equipment in a fewer months. Deputy Prime Minister besides talked about speeding up the construction of anti-drone systems, which are a consequence to a fresh kind of aggression.
– I have put before the operational commander the task of preparing a comprehensive study on today's Russian provocation and recommendations resulting from this situation," added the Minister of National Defence.
The exhibition in Poland was besides addressed by Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski, the head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs, who announced that "MFA will protest against the perpetrator".
Osiny is simply a village in Lublin, located about 100 km in a consecutive line from the border with Belarus and Ukraine and 75 km from Warsaw. Tuesday morning, 23 safety cameras on 1 of the premises recorded the minute of the detonation that occurred in a close cornfield. No 1 was injured, but there were harm in 3 houses (windows, broken frames, etc.). Police were summoned to the scene, which found burnt elements of plastic and metallic of various sizes, scattered within a radius of respective twelve meters. Soon, further services were involved, including the Military Police and WOT soldiers.