Armed Russian drone found near Polish beach: officials

A Russian Gerbera-2 drone armed with explosives was found in the sea off northern Poland this week, officials said Wednesday (September 16, 2026).

"The aerial craft was secured and it was established that it was armed" after it was found on Monday (September 14), military affairs prosecutor Bartosz Okoniewski told journalists.

"It contained a warhead with a detonator," he said, without providing further information.

The drone will undergo further examination by the military to determine where it came from and what its intended target was.

Defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Monday (September 14) that the military had located the drone near the village of Rusinowo in northwestern Poland and recovered it from the sea.

He added that the drone was thought to have been lost by Russia during test manoeuvres over the Baltic Sea.