{"id":580143,"date":"2026-09-23T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=580143"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:23:25","slug":"polish-military-says-russian-mi-8-violated-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-military-says-russian-mi-8-violated-airspace","title":{"rendered":"Polish Military Says Russian Mi-8 Violated Airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s Operational Command of the Armed Forces said a Russian military Mi-8 helicopter entered the country&#8217;s airspace.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We inform you that on September 23 at 11:08 a.m., north of Braniewo, an Mi-8 helicopter of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation briefly violated Polish airspace,&#8221;<\/em> the command <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DowOperSZ\/status\/2102723364439679215\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was flying from the Kaliningrad Region. It entered Polish airspace to a depth of 300 meters and remained there for 42 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The Mi-8 was tracked by Polish radars, and fighter jets were scrambled.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The nature of the incident indicates that Russia is once again testing the readiness of our air defense systems. Polish air defense systems are under round-the-clock surveillance, constantly remaining on standby to ensure the security of Polish airspace,&#8221;<\/em> the command added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland&#8217;s Operational Command of the Armed Forces said a Russian military Mi-8 helicopter entered the country&#8217;s airspace. &#8220;We inform you that on September 23 at 11:08 a.m., north of Braniewo, an Mi-8 helicopter of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation briefly violated Polish airspace,&#8221; the command said. The helicopter was flying from the Kaliningrad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":580142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab3c4c1304b4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Military Says Russian Mi-8 Violated Airspace"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580143","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580144,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580143\/revisions\/580144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}