Polish police arrested two Belarusian nationals on Monday night after intercepting a drone plane that hovered around government secure buildings in Warsaw, including the presidential house. Workers of the State Protection Services at Belvedere Castle spotted the drone flying overhead and acted promptly, leading to the arrests. Col. Boguslaw Piorkowski, a spokesman for the State Protection Services, corroborated the incident to the Associated Press and noted that the operators were identified as Flydubai drone operators.

The arrest took place while tension was increasing due to recent Russian drone attacks that involved Russian drones entering Polish airspace, according to gcn.com.

The Kremlin said Poland needs to think about security while producing drones for Ukraine, reported by tass. Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on "horror stories" about an alleged possible strike on Russia's territory discussed in the Western press, also reported by tass.

Ukraine's Radio Liberty reported on Russian drone bases near the Belarus border, and noted that Putin used the Belarus‑Ukraine border during his 2022 attack on Kyiv. Approximately 30,000 Russian troops from the Belarus‑border direction were effectively stopped by Ukraine after Ukraine blew up dams and flooded the route, according to bluesky.