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.

A Russian drone crashed in a field in eastern Poland, according to early findings, Polish officials said on Wednesday, in an incident the nation's defence minister described as a provocation.The drone hit and scorched a cornfield in the village of Osiny in the eastern Lublin province overnight,

A Polish general said early evidence points to the drone having a Chinese engine, and that it was likely "flying very low" to avoid radar.

Poland has delivered a note of protest to the Russian Embassy in Warsaw after a drone exploded inside the NATO member's borders. A spokesman for Poland's Foreign Ministry said: "This afternoon, a note of protest was delivered to the Embassy of the Russian Federation regarding the events that took place in Osinie on the night of August 19-20,

A suspected Russian military drone crashed into a cornfield in eastern Poland early Wednesday, exploding on impact and damaging several nearby homes in

"In connection with the activity of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, conducting strikes on Ukrainian territory – including with the use of hypersonic missiles – aircraft of the Polish Air Force and allied aviation are operating in Polish airspace,

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Russia launched 614 air attack munitions into Ukraine overnight into Thursday, the air force in Kyiv said, in a "massive combined air strike" on targets in the country.

German authorities said a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 had been taken into custody by the Italian police.

Poland, a NATO country, was forced to scramble jets due to Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine just across its border and far from the front line.