An explosive-laden drone launched from Belarus struck a military training area at Gaižiūnai, having overflown the capital Vilnius on its way. The wreckage was not located until 1 August and carried an explosive payload that had to be neutralised by military specialists. The machine was assessed to be a Gerbera — a cheap plywood-and-foam decoy drone built to imitate the Geran-2 on radar and exhaust air defences, though it can also be flown with a warhead.
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.