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.
Vilnius 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 incidentTrakai district, Lithuania
Before dawn on 19 May 2026, two meteorological-style smuggling balloons carrying suspected contraband cigarettes came down near a lake in Lithuania's Trakai district, a few houses from the home of Seimas member Edita Rudelienė. Residents reported the landing from 05:26 local time; Vilnius County Police recovered both balloons and handed them to the State Border Guard Service.
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.