| Date | 10 Feb 2023 |
| Tracker | European Airspace Violations |
| Type | Incursion |
A Russian missile crossed Moldovan airspace during a strike wave against Ukraine. Chișinău summoned the Russian ambassador and lodged a protest. Moldova is not a NATO member, has no combat aircraft of its own and no integrated air defence, so violations of its airspace are recorded after the fact rather than intercepted — a structural difference from every alliance member on this page.
| Date | Type | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Nov 2022 | Strike | Stray Ukrainian air-defence missile kills two in Przewodów, Poland |
| 16 Dec 2022 | Incursion | Russian Kh-55 cruise missile crosses into Poland, found five months later |
| 1 Aug 2023 | Incursion | Two Belarusian helicopters violate Polish airspace |
| 13 Sep 2023 | Incursion | Russian drone fragments found in the Danube Delta |
Moldova's defense ministry counted 19 airspace violations in October, and GlobalMilitary.net's incident log, which records only established incursions, holds 31 Moldovan entries for 2026 against Romania's 32, most of them since August.
GlobalMilitary.net's 2026 inventory snapshot shows nine NATO members — Iceland, Luxembourg, the three Baltic states, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia and Slovenia — hold no fixed-wing fighters, attack aircraft or bombers and depend on Allied air policing.
GlobalMilitary.net's incident log counts 45 established violations of European airspace between January 1 and August 16, 2026, against 31 for the whole of 2025 - and almost all of the growth sits in incidents that ended with a shootdown or an explosion on the ground.
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