Soldiers have ended their search for an unidentified air object that flew into Polish territory and disappeared from radar in the Tyszowce commune in the Lublin region. As reported by the Operational Command of the Armed Forces, nothing was found.
Major Ewa Złotnicka, deputy spokesperson of the Operational Command of the Armed Forces (DORSZ), confirmed this information on Thursday.
– The search of the area was completed on Wednesday evening. No object was found. We will issue a statement shortly – she said.
The search lasted 10 days.
Over the past 10 days, soldiers from the 19th Bug River Territorial Defense Brigade and the 2nd Lublin Territorial Defense Brigade, supported by mounted units and an unmanned aerial vehicle, have searched over 200 square kilometers in the Tomaszów, Hrubieszów and Zamość counties.
The area of the probable fall of the object was also searched in its entirety using military helicopters. The soldiers were also supported by hunters from the Polish Hunting Association.
Search for an object that flew over Polish territory TVN24
According to information provided by the Operational Command of the Armed Forces, on August 26 at 6:43 a.m., an unmanned aerial vehicle probably flew into Polish territory at the height of the Ukrainian city of Chervonohrad. The object disappeared from radar in the area of the Tyszowce commune south of Hrubieszów.
Analysis of the flight trajectory, speed and altitude of the object – according to the military’s assumptions – allows us to assume that it was an unmanned aerial vehicle, e.g. the shahed type used by the Russians to attack Ukraine. The military does not rule out that the object may not have fallen in Poland, but rather flew further or turned back, but radar systems did not observe this.
Search for an object that flew over Polish territory PAP/Wojtek Jargiło
Russian attacks on Ukraine
On the night from last Sunday to Monday (August 25-26) Russia attacked 15 regions of Ukraine with massive rocket fire, including the Lviv region, which borders Poland. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on social media he reported that Russia had fired over a hundred different missiles and about 100 Shahed kamikaze drones.
Search for an object that flew over Polish territory Wojtek Jargiło/PAP
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, missiles have repeatedly breached the Polish border during missile attacks. In November 2022, a missile fell in the village of Przewodów in Lublin Province, killing two people. In December of the same year, a Russian Kh-55 missile fell in a forest near Bydgoszcz, and its debris was reported in April 2023. In addition, missiles have repeatedly entered Polish airspace near the border with Ukraine for several or several dozen seconds, but left it without falling in Poland.
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