WARSAW, Oct 14 (Reuters) – An object found on a Polish beach is the remains of a Polish drone that was destroyed as part of an exercise conducted by the country’s military, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday. The private radio station RMF FM reported that a passerby had discovered on Tuesday what looked […]
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Wreckage found on Baltic beach was Polish drone from military exercise, minister says
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WARSAW, Oct 14 (Reuters) – An object found on a Polish beach is the remains of a Polish drone that was destroyed as part of an exercise conducted by the country’s military, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday.
The private radio station RMF FM reported that a passerby had discovered on Tuesday what looked like a drone and notified the police. Military sappers and other services subsequently arrived at the scene. The Polish military police said they were investigating the matter.
“Drone tests were conducted a few weeks ago in Ustka (a town on the Baltic coast). This is a Polish drone that was destroyed by Polish anti-drone systems during the exercises,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
A Defence Ministry spokesperson said earlier that preliminary findings indicated the fragments belonged to a test drone from a Polish military aviation technology institute.
Poland is the largest NATO member on the alliance’s eastern flank and shares a border with Ukraine. A series of airspace incursions by Russian drones in the region has fueled concerns that the war in Ukraine could spill over the alliance’s borders.
(Reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz and Alicja Surdy; Editing by Kevin Buckland, Xevi Fontdegloria and Toby Chopra)