See where the wind is carrying things across the EU’s eastern border — right now.
Live wind vectors at multiple altitudes, ADS-B aircraft, and AIS vessels for Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine. Orange segments mark every border crossing where wind is currently flowing in from outside the EU — the corridors balloons drift through.
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.
Utena district, north-eastern Lithuania
For the second day running, Lithuania issued an air-danger alert after radar tracked two unidentified objects crossing toward Utena on 21 May 2026. NATO fighters were scrambled and a helicopter search began, but both radar signatures were lost near Utena district and nothing was recovered by evening.
Read incidentVilnius and northeastern Lithuania (Ignalina, Utena, Švenčioniai, Zarasai districts)
On the morning of 20 May 2026, a radar mark approaching from Belarus triggered an escalating air-danger alert across northeastern Lithuania and, within the hour, Vilnius and its surrounding region. Vilnius Airport suspended flights, train services were halted, and government figures — including President Gitanas Nausėda and presidency staff — were moved to shelters. The NATO Baltic Air Policing mission was activated. The alert was lifted at around 10:58 local time; no impact inside Lithuanian airspace was confirmed.
Read incidentKablaküla village, Põltsamaa Municipality, Jõgeva County, Estonia
On 19 May 2026, Latvia issued an airspace-threat alert after radar detected an unidentified drone over its eastern border region. The object crossed into Estonia, where a Romanian F-16 from the NATO Baltic Air Policing detachment at Šiauliai shot it down near Kablaküla village — the first time a NATO fighter has destroyed an intruding drone over Baltic airspace. No casualties were reported.
Read incidentThree focus regions.
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.