Overview
- NATO fighters shot down an unmanned aircraft over eastern Latvia on Friday after Italian Eurofighters engaged the drone and Turkish F-16s were scrambled, and the alliance has opened an investigation into the incursion.
- A Spanish F-18 on NATO air policing duty shot down a drone that entered Romanian airspace early Sunday after radar tracked it coming from Moldova, with wreckage reported in an unpopulated area.
- Russia reported it intercepted hundreds of Ukrainian drones in a large overnight assault that Moscow said included roughly 822 craft and that left at least six dead in Russian regions including near Moscow and Rostov.
- Ukraine and Russia exchanged heavy drone and missile strikes over the weekend that caused deaths, injuries and fires on both sides and prompted temporary Finnish air and sea precautions that were later lifted.
- The episodes underline a widening drone campaign that blurs front lines, feature contested technical claims such as Latvia’s attribution to Russian electromagnetic warfare, and raise concerns about NATO readiness and further accidental spillovers.