| Date | 25 Apr 2025 |
| Tracker | European Airspace Violations |
| Type | Incursion |
A Russian military helicopter from the Baltic Fleet entered Polish airspace over territorial waters in the evening, tracked by military radar and by the Polish Air Navigation Agency until it left. Polish officials characterised the flight as a deliberate test of air defence readiness rather than a navigation error.
| Date | Type | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Feb 2025 | Incursion | Russian Su-24 violates Polish airspace over Gdańsk Bay |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Incursion | Drone launched from Belarus crashes in Lithuania |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Incursion | Four Ukrainian aircraft unintentionally enter Romanian airspace |
| 28 Jul 2025 | Strike | Explosive drone from Belarus hits Lithuanian training camp |
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.