{"id":506791,"date":"2026-01-01T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=506791"},"modified":"2026-01-01T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:57:17","slug":"poland-expects-continued-drone-and-weather-balloon-provocations-from-russia-and-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/poland-expects-continued-drone-and-weather-balloon-provocations-from-russia-and-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Poland Expects Continued Drone and Weather Balloon Provocations From Russia and Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland\u2019s National Security Bureau (BBN) says that Russia and Belarus have intensified aerial provocations in recent months and expects such provocations to be repeated in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>BBN notes that in many cases suspicious or dangerous activity involving drones and weather balloons has been observed near airports and military bases, often in countries located far from NATO\u2019s eastern border.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cTherefore, in the coming year, as well as in the future, it is necessary to strengthen the capabilities of the Republic of Poland to ensure the security of our airspace, as well as the security of critical infrastructure facilities and military sites,\u201d<\/i> the bureau says.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has published maps of drone and weather balloon incidents in Poland and other countries from September through December 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_506749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506749\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-506749\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtptxqaecc7f.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtptxqaecc7f.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtptxqaecc7f-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtptxqaecc7f-1200x674.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtptxqaecc7f-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtptxqaecc7f-711x400.jpeg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-506749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u041a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430 \u0430\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0434\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0438 \u0431\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0442\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432. \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043a: BBN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_506748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506748\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-506748\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtp8xiaa8lee.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtp8xiaa8lee.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtp8xiaa8lee-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtp8xiaa8lee-1200x674.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtp8xiaa8lee-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g9gbtp8xiaa8lee-711x400.jpeg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-506748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u041a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430 \u0430\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0434\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0438 \u0431\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0442\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432. \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043a: BBN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s National Security Bureau (BBN) says that Russia and Belarus have intensified aerial provocations in recent months and expects such provocations to be repeated in 2026. BBN notes that in many cases suspicious or dangerous activity involving drones and weather balloons has been observed near airports and military bases, often in countries located far from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/69565311e2fc8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Poland Expects Continued Drone and Weather Balloon Provocations From Russia and Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}