Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the State Security Service (SPS) has disabled a UAV operating over sensitive government areas, including Parkowa Street and Dinh Belweder, where the President resides.
In a post on X on the evening of September 15 (local time), Mr. Tusk said that two citizens of Belarus had been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the incident, while the police were still investigating.
A SPS spokesperson said that two employees of the agency discovered the UAV in the presidential palace sky, and it was not shot down but landed after the authorities arrested the pilots.
However, Polish Minister for Development and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz, said that the UAV was deployed locally and had no signs of launching from abroad, and called on the Warsaw government not to rush to conclusions.
The incident occurred amid rising tensions in Eastern Europe following UAVs entering the territory of NATO member countries Poland and Romania, which were allegedly carried out by Russia.
Poland has been on high alert since 19 foreign UAVs entered the country's airspace on September 10. European officials later described the move as a deliberate Provocation.
