Remains of "unidentified military object" found in forest near Bydgoszcz

According to unofficial information received by tvn24.pl, the unidentified object could have been a missile.

The defence and justice ministries did not identify what had been had found near the city of Bydgoszcz, beyond describing it as a "military object". They also did not say how long it had been there.

Earlier on, RMF FM reported that the military object found in a Polish forest was probably not fired from abroad and most likely belonged to the Polish army.

RMF, which did not identify its sources, said authorities believed the object could be part of an air-to-surface missile, measuring several metres, which was stuck in the ground.

"The situation does not threaten the safety of residents. The place of the find is being investigated by Polish officers, military police and sappers," ministry said.

The military prosecutor's office is also investigating what Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro described on Twitter as "the remains of an aerial military object" in a forest several kilometres from Bydgoszcz.

TVN24 reporter Mariusz Sidorkiewicz said there was restricted access to area where the object had been found.

TVN24 also showed footage of a digger accompanied by a truck belonging to bomb disposal experts driving down a forest trail to the scene. Military police and fire brigade vehicles were present.

Poland has been on alert for possible spillover of weaponry from the war in neighbouring Ukraine, especially since two people were killed near the border last November by what Warsaw concluded was a misfired Ukrainian air defence missile.

The area where the object was found is hundreds of kilometres from Poland's borders with Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

The military police, regional police, the mayor of the village of Zamość, the Gdańsk prosecutor's office and a government spokesman all declined to comment further.