Key facts
- A Russian drone found off Poland's coast on Monday was carrying a warhead with a detonator, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
- The drone contained a "high-explosive fragmentation warhead fitted with a fuze," according to Colonel Bartosz Okoniewski, deputy regional prosecutor for military affairs in Poznań.
- Investigators have not officially established where or when the drone was launched or how it entered Polish waters.
- The most likely explanation is that the drone drifted from international waters into Poland's territorial waters, according to Lt Col Jacek Goryszewski, spokesperson for the Operational Command.
- The incident follows other recent escalations, including NATO jets shooting down a drone in Lithuanian airspace and a Russian frigate firing flares at a Danish military helicopter.
A Russian drone discovered in the Baltic Sea near Poland's northwestern coast on Monday was equipped with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead and a detonator, military prosecutors announced Wednesday. The drone, identified as a Russian Gerbera 2, was located near the beach in Rusinowo and subsequently neutralized and moved for further examination.