Warsaw halted the search for debris from Russian drones that massively breached Poland’s airspace on September 9–10.
According to the spokesperson for the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Jacek Goriszewski, the decision to halt the operation was made on October 30. About 150 service members of the 2nd Lublin Territorial Defense Brigade participated in the operation. He added that the searches could be resumed if new data emerge indicating the need to continue such actions.
As previously reported, on the night of September 10, drones breached Poland’s airspace and were subsequently shot down. Initially, it was said that a total of 19 drones penetrated the airspace overnight. Three or four drones were destroyed by Polish F-16s and Dutch F-35s.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that NATO allies are dealing with a “massive provocation” from Moscow. U.S. President Donald Trump, commenting on the incident, expressed the view that Russia’s airspace violation could have been a mistake. However, Tusk and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told the U.S. president that this attack by Russian drones was not a mistake.
After this, over the following weeks debris from Russian drones was found in various places in eastern Poland.
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