Overview

• Poland launched a preventive air operation, put ground-based air defenses on highest alert and briefly closed Lublin airport, with local sirens and SMS warnings issued in border districts.
• Romania reported a suspected Russian drone violating its airspace, with two F‑16s tracking the object near Chilia Veche until it disappeared from radar and authorities noting no overflight of populated areas.
• NATO and European allies reinforced the region under Operation Eastern Sentry, including deployments such as German Eurofighters to bolster air policing and support for Poland’s defenses.
• Earlier in the week at least 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace during strikes on Ukraine, and several were shot down by Polish and allied forces.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the incidents a deliberate expansion of the war, President Donald Trump suggested they could have been accidental, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said proof of intentional targeting would be highly escalatory.