A drone bearing Ukrainian markings — which Ukraine said was a Russian decoy — crashed and exploded near the village of Lopatna, 55 km north-east of Chișinău and immediately beside the Dniester, which separates Moldovan-controlled territory from the pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria. The incident came hours after President Maia Sandu said Moldova should reinforce its counter-drone systems and attract military investment. The attribution remains contested and the incident is logged here without one.
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.