These warnings follow several days of aerial escalations, including NOTAMs on Oct 7 that closed airspace over Lublin and Rzeszow for unplanned military activity. On Oct 5, officials previously issued and revoked an alert for the Lublin Voivodeship. Security analysts suggest Russia may be carrying out these strikes near the frontier to test the response limits of neighboring states.
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Poland Lifts Air Alerts After Russian Drones Are Shot Down
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The security threat along Poland's eastern border was neutralized on Oct 8 when military forces intercepted multiple drones heading toward western Ukraine and the Yagodyn border crossing. Following the destruction of these threats, which included a Russian Geran-5 drone, the Polish government cancelled emergency RCB alerts for residents in the Podkarpackie and Lublin regions.
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