| Date | 12 Nov 2026 |
| Tracker | European Airspace Violations |
| Type | Strike |
| Location |
Antonești, Ștefan Vodă District, Moldova
46.49, 29.85 (approximate) |
The remains of a drone were found on 12 November 2026 in a vineyard on the outskirts of Antonești, in Ștefan Vodă district. Moldovan police explosives experts preliminarily identified it as a Geran-2 with a turbojet engine and said it had struck a concrete pillar about 1.5 metres above the ground, the blast extending over a radius of about 25 metres; no other explosive devices were found. Moldova's Ministry of Defence listed the find among five aerial incidents recorded on 7–13 November during Russia's attacks on Ukraine. The ministry did not report when the drone entered Moldovan airspace.
| Date | Type | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Nov 2026 | Incursion | Two balloon-type aerostats briefly cross northern Moldova in Drochia and Soroca districts |
| 10 Nov 2026 | Incursion | Two drones briefly cross Latvia's eastern border into Ludza Municipality |
| 11 Nov 2026 | Incursion | Drone from Belarus crosses Lithuania into Latvia and Estonia as NATO fighters fail to down it |
| 11 Nov 2026 | Incursion | Two Russian Banderol cruise missiles cross south-eastern Moldova and Transnistria during strikes on Ukraine |
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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