Poland finds suspected Russian drone in sea close to Baltic coast
Authorities said the drone appears to be a Russian Gerbera decoy model, and investigators are examining whether it carried explosives.
- On Monday, Polish forces recovered a military drone of Russian origin from the Baltic Sea near Rusinowo. Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced the find, noting initial inspections indicate it is a Russian unmanned aircraft.
- The recovered device is a Russian Gerbera-2, a low-cost, plywood-constructed drone typically deployed as a decoy to saturate air defenses. The craft carries a range of roughly 700 kilometers and was found armed with a fragmentation-high-explosive warhead.
- Military affairs prosecutor Bartosz Okoniewski stated, "It contained a fragmentation-high-explosive warhead together with a fuze," which authorities neutralized on the beach on September 15. The Szczecin-Niebuszewo District Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into potential threats to public safety.
- Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz suggested the drone may have crossed the Lithuanian border toward Kaliningrad before entering Polish waters. Poland and Lithuania plan to investigate jointly, linking the incident to broader regional aerial activity observed throughout September.
- This recovery follows recent regional incidents, including an August 31 interception of a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft roughly 30 kilometers north of Aeba. These events underscore persistent aerial surveillance across the Baltic corridor, heightening security concerns for NATO members.
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The aircraft found on a Baltic Sea beach in Poland on Monday is a Russian Gerbera-2 combat drone, the Polish prosecutor's office said today, quoted by Agence France-Presse, BTA reports. The drone was secured and found to be equipped with ammunition, military prosecutor Bartosz Okonewski told reporters. "It was equipped with a warhead and a detonator," Okonewski said, without providing further details. The aircraft must be further examined by the…
Only recently Nato-Jets fired a Russian fighting drone over Lithuania. Now Poland reports: A drone fished from the Baltic Sea on Monday also comes from Russia – and was also armed.
The explosives were neutralized on the beach, Polish authorities say.
An aircraft found earlier this week on a beach in Poland is a Russian Gerbera-2 drone, announces the Polish prosecutor's office on Wednesday, reports AFP.
Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on Monday that the armed forces had located the drone near the village of Rusinowo, in north-western Poland, and had recovered it at sea.
An explosive device was found on a suspected Russian-made military drone off the coast of the Baltic Sea in Poland earlier this week, the prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
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