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Russian drone crashes into residential building in Poland
A Russian drone fell on a residential building in the village of Wyryki Wola near the border with Belarus during night’s unprecedented breach of Polish airspace on 10 September, Polish media reported.
According to the Polish Prime Minister, about 19 intrusions into Polish airspace were recorded, a significant number of drones came from Belarus. Some four drones were reportedly shot down.
The unmanned aircraft damaged the roof of a house and a car parked nearby, according to RMF FM journalist Dominik Smaga. No fire broke out and no one was injured in the incident.
Fire brigade and other emergency services arrived at the scene. Authorities have not yet determined whether the building was struck by one of the drones shot down by Polish forces or by an aircraft that evaded interception.
Local authorities cordoned off the area and asked residents to remain indoors. Wyryki municipality head Bernard Błaszczuk decided to close the local primary school indefinitely as a precautionary measure.
The incident occurred after Poland’s Operational Command of the Armed Forces announced that Russian drones had “repeatedly violated” Polish airspace during Moscow’s overnight attack on Ukraine. The military described it as an “unprecedented” breach that constituted “an act of aggression” creating “real threats to the security of our citizens.”
Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed that “drones that could pose a threat were shot down.” He later revealed that more than a dozen Russian drones had crossed into Polish territory.
Multiple drone discoveries followed across the country. Lublin police found a damaged drone in a field near Czosnówka around 5 am, with Cyrillic inscriptions visible on the aircraft. In the Zamość region, authorities recovered a stabilizer from a drone shot down between the villages of Cześniki and Niewilków around 3 am.
Two additional drones were located in Parczew county – one in Krzywowierzba Kolonia village and another in Wychalew village. A foreign-origin drone was also discovered near Mniszków in the Łódź region on undeveloped land.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk convened an emergency government meeting at 8 am in response to the airspace violations. President Karol Nawrocki scheduled a consultation at the National Security Bureau with the prime minister’s participation.
The Polish military’s decision to actively intercept the drones marked a significant escalation from previous incidents when Warsaw typically monitored foreign aircraft without engaging them directly.
During the overnight assault on Ukraine, Russia involved 415 strike drones of Shahed, Gerbera and other types, and 43 missiles of ground, air and sea-based launch.
One person died and nine others were injured in a Russian combined strike on Ukraine during the night of 10 September, according to regional officials across multiple oblasts.
