| Date | 16 Apr 2026 |
| Tracker | European Airspace Violations |
| Type | Incursion |
| Location |
Chilia Veche, Tulcea County, Romania
45.42, 29.29 (approximate) |
A Russian drone was picked up by military radar violating Romanian airspace over the border village of Chilia Veche, during a wave of Russian drone attacks on Ukraine. Chilia Veche, on the Danube opposite Vylkove, recurs more often than any other place name in the Romanian record.
| Date | Type | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Mar 2026 | Incursion | Drones violate Finnish airspace, two crash near Kouvola |
| 25 Apr 2026 | Strike | Russian drone damages house and power pole in Galați |
| 3 May 2026 | Incursion | Unmarked drone falls 20 km inside Romania in Suceava County |
| 3 May 2026 | Incursion | Two drones enter Finnish airspace, airspace closed for three hours |
Moldova's defense ministry counted 19 airspace violations in October, and GlobalMilitary.net's incident log, which records only established incursions, holds 31 Moldovan entries for 2026 against Romania's 32, most of them since August.
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.
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