Object that exploded in Polish field could be drone or sabotage-related, defence minister says
WARSAW (Reuters) -An object which fell and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland may have been a component of an old propeller engine, the Polish army said on Wednesday, adding that there had been no violation of Poland's airspace from Ukraine or Belarus.
Police had earlier announced that an unidentified object had fallen in a field in the village of Osiny in eastern Poland's Lublin province, which borders Ukraine.
"...after conducting preliminary analyses of radar system records, no violation of Polish airspace was recorded last night from either Ukraine or Belarus," the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said on X.
"The information about the discovery of an object, which, according to preliminary assessments, may be a component of an old propeller engine, has been forwarded to the Air Operations Center – Air Component Command."
The blast shattered windows in several homes, but nobody was injured, PAP news agency reported. Police officers found burnt metal and plastic debris at the site, it added.
Air raid sirens rang out for about an hour over the border in Ukraine's Volyn and Lviv regions from around 2100 GMT, according to messages from its military posted on Telegram.
There were no reports of air attacks in those regions, their governors said.
(Reporting by Marek Strzelecki and Alan Charlish in Warsaw, Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Sharon Singleton)
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(Corrects time to around 2100 GMT in paragraph 6) WARSAW (Reuters) -An object which fell and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland may have been a component of an old propeller engine, the Polish army said on Wednesday, adding that there had been no violation of Poland's airspace from Ukraine or Belarus. Police had earlier announced that an unidentified object had fallen in a field in the village of Osiny in eastern Poland's Lublin province, which borders Ukraine. "...after conducting preliminary analyses of radar system records, no violation of Polish airspace was recorded last night from either Ukraine or Belarus," the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said on X. "The information about the discovery of an object, which, according to preliminary assessments, may be a component of an old propeller engine, has been forwarded to the Air Operations Center – Air Component Command." The blast shattered windows in several homes, but nobody was injured, PAP news agency reported. Police officers found burnt metal and plastic debris at the site, it added. Air raid sirens rang out for about an hour over the border in Ukraine's Volyn and Lviv regions from around 2100 GMT, according to messages from its military posted on Telegram. There were no reports of air attacks in those regions, their governors said. (Reporting by Marek Strzelecki and Alan Charlish in Warsaw, Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Sharon Singleton)
