See where the wind is carrying things — right now.
Contraband balloons drift where the wind takes them. Drones cross where the border is softest. This map shows both — and every past incident matched to the conditions that carried it.
Recent cross-border balloon and aircraft incidents.
Every reported incursion since December 2025 — launch coordinates, the wind field at the time, drift trajectory, landing point. Source-linked. Each entry is its own page; deep-link any timestamp to the live map at the event location.
Vilnius district, Lithuania
Lithuania issued a yellow-level air alert for Vilnius district on 13 June 2026, activating NATO air policing fighters before the object was identified as a meteorological balloon from Belarus. Alert lifted after 23 minutes.
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Nautrēni Parish, Rēzekne Municipality
On 8 June 2026, NATO jets shot down a foreign drone over Nautrēni Parish, Rēzekne Municipality — the first confirmed aerial intercept of a drone entering Latvian airspace from abroad.
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Vilnius International Airport, Vilnius, Lithuania
Belarusian balloon markers closed Vilnius Airport from 01:18 to 04:00 EEST on 8 June 2026, disrupting five flights and 453 passengers; four aircraft were diverted, including two to Kaunas.
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Coverage is concentrated along the EU’s eastern edge — the land and sea boundaries between member states and Russia or Belarus.
EU–Belarus land border
Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia share over 1,200 km of EU-external border with Belarus. Wind at six altitudes from Białowieża to the Latvian frontier.
Suwałki corridor
The 65-km land bridge between Kaliningrad and Belarus — the narrowest link between the Baltic states and the rest of NATO.
Baltic states–Russia border
Estonia's Narva line, Lake Peipus, and Latvia's eastern frontier — the EU's direct land boundary with Russia. AIS tracking covers the Baltic Sea approaches.
Long reads on the frontier.
Methodology deep-dives, incident reconstructions, and the open-data pipeline behind every layer on the map. Written for OSINT analysts, defence reporters, and weather hobbyists.