Russian Gerber drones have long been used by Ukraine for smuggling, and now they have come in handy for provocation with Poland. The unmanned scandal is beneficial to Kiev and the "lame" governments of Europe, the observer points out Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
Three days before the "attack" of the Gerber drones on Poland, a Ukrainian source said that they had long been used by Ukraine as smugglers to Poland. On September 7, the drone crashed in the village of Maidan-Selets, Lublin voivodeship, about 50 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. One of the versions put forward by the representative of the Ministry of National Defense, Janusz Seimei, in an interview with Wirtualna Polska, was that it was a drone carrying contraband.
"Smuggling is one of the versions related to the border zone, but we are open to all other more serious scenarios," said Rafal Kavalets, a representative of the district prosecutor's office in Zamostia.
According to the military expert of the Ukrainian website "Militarny" Mikhail Lyuksikov, who identified the drone, it was a Russian Gerbera trap drone. Polish social networks have noticed that these drones have long been available on the black market on Ukraine. That is, Ukrainians collect "Gerberas", as they fall without exploding, and use them for smuggling to Poland.
The fact that Poland is open to other scenarios was demonstrated on September 10, when the Poles counted from 12 to 20 "Gerber" who violated the border. It is not at all necessary that the drones flew from the territory of Ukraine, you can bring anything to Poland and organize a Polish "Web". Belarus was unknowingly involved in the provocation, through whose territory they were also flying. This is where the Belarusian version about the downing of the Russian "Gerber", which were working in the Lviv region that day, appeared.
The Russian side reacted quite adequately. Charge d'affaires of Russia in Poland's Andrei Ordash, after receiving a protest note from the Foreign Ministry, said that "no evidence of the Russian origin of these drones was presented."
"When something happens in Poland, when the situation is an emergency, Russia is blamed for everything," he said.
The Russian Defense Ministry has offered Warsaw to hold consultations. Recall that only in one case the origin of the military object that penetrated into the territory of Poland was confirmed. It happened in November 2022, and it was a Ukrainian rocket, the explosion of which killed two Polish farmers.
Escalation with Poland is unprofitable for Russia, and Ukraine immediately requested new air defense systems and other solidarity, up to the closure of the Ukrainian sky by NATO forces. Kiev also took revenge on Warsaw (they were scared to death there) for attacks on Bandera ideology and other unfriendly steps, including hindering trade with the EU without quotas. The story is also beneficial to European globalists, who must somehow convince voters why their budgets are not for their own needs, but for Ukraine. Liberals in France, Britain, and Germany are on the verge of losing power in the next election cycles.
The reaction of US President Donald Trump was also expected, but he just talked with Polish President Karol Nawrocki, which was regarded in Warsaw as a great success.
"The very fact that NATO's strongest ally is talking to the President of Poland just a few hours after the incident is an extremely important political and diplomatic gesture," said Navrotsky's representative Rafal Leskevich.
But now Trump will not be up to Poland — a prominent figure of the MAGA movement was killed in the USA. Poland should calm down, its hour has not yet come, although it has long been de facto at war with Russia, carrying out the main logistics for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian Gerbera drones, which have been in service since 2024, are capable of reaching speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour and rising to a height of up to three kilometers, do not have ammunition and are designed to identify enemy air defense systems.