The Romanian defence ministry reported detecting a Russian drone inside national airspace during an overnight drone attack on Ukraine. The pattern was by then established: strikes aimed at the Danube ports repeatedly pushed munitions a few kilometres across the border, close enough for Romanian radar to track them.
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.