Russian drone strikes near Ukraine–Poland border again
On the evening of September 28, a Russian jet drone struck Ukrainian territory approximately two kilometers from the "Dorohusk - Yahodyn" border crossing point. Following this, Poland scrambled military aviation and placed its air defense forces on high alert. Polish airspace was not violated.
Russian drone strikes near the Ukraine–Poland border again
According to DW, Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that the attack occurred in western Ukraine. Later, the alert was canceled, the aircraft returned to base, and the air defense systems switched to monitoring and standby mode.
According to the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA), the operations of Lublin and Rzeszów airports in the east of the country were suspended for about 40 minutes to ensure the free movement of military aviation.
The head of the Volyn Regional Military Administration, Roman Romanyuk, reported that as a result of the Shahed drone attack, a blast wave damaged the checkpoint building at the entrance to the terminal.
He said there were no reports of casualties or fatalities.
Meanwhile, Andriy Demchenko, a spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, told DW in a comment that the checkpoint on the border with Poland was not damaged.
Russian drones also struck Ukrainian regions bordering Poland in September. In particular, on September 13, one drone hit a gas station near the border, while another struck the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train at Yahodyn station.
Another strike was recorded on September 17. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at the time that, in all likelihood, the gas station had been attacked again.
A few hours before the September 28 attack, Polish Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk announced that the procedure for acting in the event of the unexpected appearance of foreign aircraft in the country's airspace would be changed.
According to him, there are plans to abandon the requirement of visual identification to open fire on such a target. Instead, it is proposed to rely on a set of data that allows identifying the nature of the target with sufficiently high confidence.