At least three Russian drones were shot down by Poland and NATO during the night between September 9 and 10, 2025, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

Poland detected 19 drone incursions in its airspace, coming amid an attack on Ukraine. Some fragments of the drones fell on Polish territory, causing damage to residential buildings, including a house in the village of Wyryki-Wola, in the Lublin region.

But while global leaders reacted to the airspace invasion with support for Poland and condemnation for Russia's actions, false narratives about the incursion proliferated on social media.

The day after Poland shot down the drones, social media users immediately began claiming that the airspace invasion was not carried out by Russia.

Because the invasion of Polish airspace occurred while Russia was simultaneously targeting the city of Lviv, in Ukraine, social media users have been claiming that Ukraine took advantage of Russia's attack to launch false drones on Poland, attempting to drag NATO into a direct conflict against Russia.

For example, TikTok profile @briefinggoon on September 14 posted a video (archived here) with an AI voiceover and with the caption “Zelensky staged a false flag operation, trying to drag NATO into direct war with Russia,” garnering over 308,000 views in two days.

The false claim was also shared on X (archived here), Facebook (archived here) and Telegram (archived here), by pro-Russia social media users, garnering thousands of views. It quickly...

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