{"id":360359,"date":"2025-08-20T21:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360359\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:09:24","slug":"poland-calls-drone-crash-in-the-countrys-east-a-russian-provocation-amid-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360359\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland calls drone crash in the country’s east a Russian provocation amid peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s defense minister said that a flying object that crashed and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland<\/a> early Wednesday was identified as a Russian drone, calling it a provocation by Russia.<\/p>\n

At a news conference in Warsaw, Defense Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz accused Russia of provoking NATO during a crucial moment, as peace talks over the war in neighboring Ukraine are underway, the country’s news agency PAP reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is provoking us once again,\u201d Kosiniak-Kamysz said, just as peace talks have given hope that the war \u201chas a chance of ending.\u201d <\/p>\n

Police said they received reports of the crash around 2 a.m. and found burned metal and plastic debris at the scene, near the village of Osiny. The blast broke windows in some nearby houses, but nobody was injured, PAP reported. <\/p>\n

Poland’s Armed Forces Operational Command said Wednesday on social media that no violations of Polish airspace from neighboring Ukraine or Belarus were recorded overnight.<\/p>\n

Officials initially said the explosion may have been caused by a part of an old engine with a propeller.<\/p>\n

Lublin District Prosecutor Grzegorz Trusiewicz told reporters several investigators \u2014 both civilian and military \u2014 were examining the crash site.<\/p>\n

Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, there have been a number of intrusions into Polish airspace<\/a>, raising alarm in the European Union<\/a> and NATO<\/a> member state and reminding people how close the war is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s defense minister said that a flying object that crashed and exploded in a cornfield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[126678,3907,5293,2595,4179,8617,285,332,7661,7660,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-360359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-126678","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-diplomacy","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-military-and-defense","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","17":"tag-war-and-unrest","18":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115063145433526153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}