Overview
- NATO fighters shot down a drone over eastern Latvia on Friday after Italian Eurofighters and Turkish F‑16s scrambled under the Baltic Air Policing mission and the wreckage fell in a wooded area with no injuries reported.
- Latvian authorities said the unmanned aircraft entered their airspace “as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare,” a claim the alliance has noted as part of its ongoing inquiry into the incident.
- A Spanish F‑18 on a NATO air‑policing mission shot down a drone that entered Romanian airspace from Moldova on Sunday, with debris landing in an uninhabited area and no casualties reported.
- Russia and Ukraine exchanged large drone and missile barrages over the weekend, with Russian officials saying hundreds of Ukrainian drones were launched toward Russian regions and Russian strikes causing fires and civilian casualties in Ukraine.
- Allies have opened investigations, temporarily restricted nearby airspace as a precaution, and urged faster upgrades to radar, sensors, and counter‑UAV systems to ease growing pressure on regional air‑defence networks.