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Parts of ‘aerial military object’ found in north-central Poland: officials

27.04.2023 10:45
The remains of an unidentified “aerial military object” have been found in a forest near the north-central Polish city of Bydgoszcz, government officials said on Thursday. 
The headquarters of Polands defence ministry in Warsaw.
The headquarters of Poland's defence ministry in Warsaw.Lukas Plewnia from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Polish defence ministry wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning: “The remains of an unidentified military object have been found in the vicinity of the village of Zamość, some 15 kilometres from Bydgoszcz.” 

The tweet added that "the situation does not threaten the safety of residents” and “the location of the discovery is being investigated" by Polish officers and military police.

Meanwhile, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro announced that prosecutors had launched a probe into the discovery, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s polskieradio24.pl website reported.

Ziobro said in a tweet: “The military department of the District Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk, under the supervision of the National Public Prosecutor's Office, has initiated proceedings regarding the remains of an aerial military object found in a forest several kilometres from Bydgoszcz." 

The justice minister added that military experts, police and security services were also at the scene of the find, according to polskieradio24.pl. 

The area where the object was found is hundreds of kilometres from Poland's borders with Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the Reuters news agency reported.

Thursday is day 428 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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Source: polskieradio24.pl, Reuters, ABC