Finland's defence forces reported that a Russian aircraft violated Finnish airspace while routing around a thunderstorm off the coast of Porkkala in the Gulf of Finland. The Finnish Air Force launched an operational flight in response. Finland treated the crossing as weather-driven rather than deliberate.
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.