A drone believed to be a Russian Shahed variant hit the Osiny village in Poland's Lublin province, shattering windows in homes but causing no injuries to residents.

Poland has claimed a Russian military drone with a self-destruct warhead crashed and exploded in farmland in the country’s east, calling the move a “provocation” by Russia amid global efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

The Polish news agency says an unidentified flying object has crashed and exploded in a cornfield in the country’s east.

EADaily, August 21st, 2025. Poland has once again changed its position on the ownership of the drone that crashed the day before on the territory of the country.

Poland's Minister of National Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz voiced the three most probable hypotheses regarding the overnight explosion in a village in Lublin voivodeship. His words are quoted by RMF24.

The Netherlands will send two Patriot air defence systems and around 300 personnel to protect a hub for military aid to Ukraine in NATO ally Poland, the Polish defence minister said on Thursday.

Shortly before dawn on July 9, Russia had fired 728 drones and 13 missiles into Ukraine, making it the largest Russian aerial bombardment of the war so far.