According to media reports, suspected Russian drone disappears after violating Polish airspace

A possible Russian Shahed drone flew over Polish airspace for 33 minutes on August 26 before “disappearing,” RMF 24 reported.

Russia launched its largest airstrike on Ukraine on the morning of August 26, using 127 missiles and 109 drones.

A search for debris is currently underway in Tyszowce, Poland, which is the last known location of the drone.

It is currently unclear whether the drone crashed on Polish territory or flew back into Ukrainian airspace.

The Polish military was ready to shoot down the object, but could not identify it with certainty, wrote RMF 24.

“The identification should have been made before the decision to neutralise the object was made… However, this final identification did not take place due to weather conditions,” Polish Lieutenant Colonel Jacek Goryszewski told RMF 24.

There are currently no reports of damage to the ground.

When the Russian mass attack on August 26 also targeted the western regions of Ukraine, Warsaw alerted its fighter jets in the southeast of the country.

This was not the first case of a possible violation of Polish airspace as a result of a Russian air strike on Ukraine.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in July that some Russian missiles fired at targets in the Lviv region of western Ukraine entered Polish airspace for about 40 seconds before returning to targets on Ukrainian soil.

In another incident on November 15, 2022, a missile flew into Polish territory during a mass Russian attack, killing two civilians. Polish investigators later concluded that it was a stray Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile fired to intercept the Russian attack.