Poland warns the Russian drone explosion is ‘another provocation’ as their patience with Putin is running thin

A Polish general said early evidence points to the drone having a Chinese engine, and that it was likely "flying very low" to avoid radar.

WARSAW - Polish officials said on Wednesday they were not ruling out that an object that exploded overnight in a field in eastern Poland was a Russian or smuggling drone, or a case of sabotage, though they had not detected anything entering Polish airspace.

EADaily, August 20th, 2025. Despite the fact that the exploded in In Poland, the drone flew in from the territory of Ukraine, Warsaw has already appointed the culprit — Russia.

Local police said they received reports of the crash around 2 a.m. and found burned metal and plastic debris at the scene.

A Russian drone crashed and exploded in eastern Poland on Tuesday night, Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said. He called the incident a “provocation” by Moscow, according to the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.

Polish investigators say the drone that crashed and exploded in a cornfield on Wednesday may have entered Polish airspace from Belarus, as services continue to comb the area around the blast's epicentre.

Polish authorities said Wednesday that an object which exploded in the night in the east of the country may have been a military drone of unknown provenance.