| Date | 1 Aug 2023 |
| Tracker | European Airspace Violations |
| Type | Incursion |
Two Belarusian military helicopters crossed into Polish airspace. Poland summoned the Belarusian chargé d'affaires in response and reinforced its eastern border. The incident came during a period of heightened tension over the presence of Wagner Group personnel in Belarus, and Warsaw treated it as deliberate rather than accidental.
| Date | Type | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Sep 2023 | Incursion | Russian drone fragments found in the Danube Delta |
| 30 Sep 2023 | Incursion | Russian drone detected in Romanian airspace during attack on Ukraine |
| 14 Dec 2023 | Incursion | Russian drone crashes on Romanian territory, fighters scrambled |
| 29 Dec 2023 | Incursion | Russian missile crosses Polish airspace for three minutes |
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.
An Italian Eurofighter on NATO Baltic Air Policing duty destroyed an unidentified drone over eastern Latvia before dawn on 14 August, the second time the alliance's quick-reaction force has shot one down over the country this year.