An object that crashed and exploded shortly after 2 a.m. on 20 August in a cornfield near the village of Osiny in eastern Poland has been identified as a military drone, authorities said. The blast shattered windows and damaged three buildings but caused no casualties. Lublin regional prosecutor Grzegorz Trusiewicz said preliminary forensic work showed the wreckage matched a military-grade unmanned aerial vehicle. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson later confirmed the debris was consistent with a Russian-made variant of the Iranian-designed Shahed drone. Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz called the incident a “Russian provocation” and said investigators were considering every scenario, including hybrid warfare. Poland’s Armed Forces Operational Command reported that no airspace violations from neighbouring Ukraine or Belarus were detected during the night. The crash site lies about 100 kilometres from the Ukrainian frontier and a similar distance from Belarus, underlining persistent spill-over risks from the war in Ukraine into NATO territory. Military helicopters and forensic teams continued to secure the area on Wednesday afternoon while technicians attempted to reconstruct the drone’s flight path and payload. Warsaw has signalled it may lodge a formal diplomatic protest once the investigation is complete; the Russian embassy in Poland has not commented.