According to unofficial information, a drone found on Thursday at a coal mine near Konin may have been part of a group of devices that entered Poland in September last year. Proceedings regarding the object are being conducted by the Polish Military Gendarmerie.
The Poznań Voivodeship Police Headquarters reported that a drone was found on the premises of a lignite coal mine in Gałczyce, in Konin County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. As the regional police wrote on the X (Twitter) platform, the report on the matter was received shortly after 11 a.m.
According to information unofficially obtained by the Polish Press Agency from sources close to the Ministry of Defence, the discovered drone was most likely one of those that entered Polish airspace during the night of September 9-10 last year. At that time, numerous Russian drones intruded over Poland, many of which fell on the country’s territory, in some cases after being shot down by North Atlantic Treaty Organization aviation.
In the following weeks, the military and security services searched for drones and their debris. Many were found in the Lublin Voivodeship and, in individual cases, also in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Masovian Voivodeship, Łódź Voivodeship and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. A significant number of the objects have still not been recovered.