Polish authorities reported finding five balloons across Podlaskie Voivodeship along the eastern border with Belarus. Recovery of balloons on the ground, days after any crossing, is the usual form these incidents take on the Polish border, where the forested frontier makes interception impractical.
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.