Background on the area: Kaliningrad and Polish-Belarusian border.
By region
- Baltic Sea off Poland - 5 incidents
- Podlaskie Voivodeship - 5 incidents
- Lublin Voivodeship - 4 incidents
All 22 incidents, newest first
- 🇵🇱 · Sep 23, 2026 · North of Braniewo
Braniewo helicopter, Sep 23, 2026 - jets scrambled
AirVeto's archive counts this as the 14th airspace incident it has reconstructed involving Poland in 2026. - 🇵🇱 · Sep 21, 2026 · Żuławka Sztumska
Malbork air alert, Sep 22 2026 - object lost from radar
AirVeto's archive counts this as the 14th airspace incident it has reconstructed involving Poland in 2026, one day before the September 23 Braniewo helicopter crossing. - 🇵🇱 · Sep 14, 2026 · Rusinowo
Rusinowo beach drone, Sep 14, 2026 - Russian Gerbera
A suspected Russian Gerbera drone drifted ashore on a Baltic beach near Rusinowo, Western Pomeranian Voivodeship, on September 14, 2026, Poland's Defense Ministry said. - 🇵🇱 · Sep 3, 2026 · International airspace
Baltic Sea, 3 Sep 2026 - Polish jets intercept Il-20 again
Polish fighter jets intercepted a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft 40 km north of Ustka in the Baltic Sea on September 3, 2026; no Polish airspace violation. - 🇵🇱 · Aug 31, 2026 · International airspace
Baltic Sea, 31 Aug 2026 - Polish jets intercept Il-20 again
Polish fighter jets intercepted a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft 30 km north of Leba in the Baltic Sea before noon on August 31, 2026; no Polish airspace violation. - 🇵🇱 · Aug 30, 2026 · WB Electronics plant
Skarżysko-Kamienna drone-plant arson attempt, 31 Aug 2026
A man broke into a WB Electronics drone-parts plant in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland, and threw an incendiary device into a production hall just after midnight on August 31, 2026. - 🇵🇱 · Jul 30, 2026 · Tarnawa-Kolonia
Tarnawa-Kolonia missile impact, July 30, 2026 - NATO airspace
A Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Poland on July 30, 2026, impacting farmland in Lublin Voivodeship and leaving a 10-meter crater approximately 90 km inside NATO territory. - 🇵🇱 · Jul 16, 2026 · International airspace
Baltic Sea, 16 Jul 2026 - Su-30 and Il-20M intercepted
Polish QRA fighters intercepted two Russian Su-30s then an Il-20M in the same sortie over the Baltic Sea on July 16, 2026, 30 km north of Jastrzębia Góra. - 🇵🇱 · Jul 15, 2026 · International airspace
Baltic Sea, 15 Jul 2026 - Polish jets intercept Russian Su-30s
Polish and Swedish fighter jets intercepted two Russian Su-30SM2 aircraft from Kaliningrad over the Baltic Sea on July 15, 2026, one day after a Russian Il-20 ELINT mission over the same waters. - 🇵🇱 · Jul 14, 2026 · International airspace
Baltic Sea, 14 Jul 2026 - Polish F-16s intercept Russian Il-20
Polish F-16s intercepted a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft 30 km north of Ustka in the Baltic Sea on July 14, 2026; Polish Defence Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz called it a large-scale provocation. - 🇵🇱 · Jul 13, 2026 · Suraż
Suraż balloon cargo, 13 Jul 2026 - two Lithuanians detained
Polish border guards in Podlaskie detained two Lithuanians collecting 350 cartons of contraband cigarettes delivered by weather balloon to Suraż on July 13, 2026. - 🇵🇱 · May 8, 2026 · Osieka
Bartoszyce drone, May 9, 2026 - crossed from Kaliningrad
A Russian-marked reconnaissance drone crossed from Kaliningrad into Poland and was found in a field near Bartoszyce on May 9, 2026, prosecutors said. - 🇵🇱 · Apr 20, 2026 · Bobrowniki border area
Bobrowniki drone arrest, April 2026 - 3 detained at border
Polish border guards at Bobrowniki detained three men - two Belarusians and one Pole - collecting cigarettes delivered by drone from Belarus, April 2026. - 🇵🇱 · Jan 28, 2026 · Przasnysz
Drone lands 70 meters from Polish EW base at Przasnysz
A drone crashed 70 meters from Poland's 2nd Radio-Electronic Centre at Przasnysz on January 28, 2026, with no intercept means deployed. Military police are investigating; origin undetermined. - 🇵🇱 · Jan 16, 2026 · Kuźnica
Belarus balloons reach Podlaskie and Lublin, 17 Jan 2026
On the night of 16-17 January, AirVeto's wind data shows the air from the ground to 3,000 m blowing from the south and southeast, away from the border; only air at 4,000 m and above flowed in from Belarus, and balloons were recovered up to 229 km from Kuźnica. - 🇵🇱 · Dec 25, 2025 · Podlaskie Voivodeship / Baltic Sea
Russian IL-20M shadows balloon drop over Podlaskie, Poland
Polish jets intercepted a Russian IL-20M ELINT aircraft over the Baltic on December 25, 2025 while Belarusian balloons crossed Podlaskie - analysts called it a coordinated hybrid probe. - 🇵🇱 · Dec 24, 2025 · Podlaskie Voivodeship
Smuggling balloons land across Białystok and Podlaskie, Poland
Goniądz, one of the four reported landing sites, lies about 61 km west of the nearest point on AirVeto's outline of the Belarusian border, a straight-line minimum of about two hours of drift at the 29 km/h flow from the east-northeast that AirVeto's wind data shows at 3,000 m. - 🇵🇱 · Sep 15, 2025 · Belweder Palace district
Drone neutralised near Warsaw Belweder presidential palace
A drone was neutralised over Warsaw's Belweder Palace district at 17:00 UTC on September 15, 2025; a Belarusian woman and a Ukrainian man were detained and charged. - 🇵🇱 · Sep 9, 2025 · Wyryki-Wola
Stray Polish AIM-120 strikes house in Wyryki-Wola
During Russia's Sep 9-10, 2025 drone incursion into Poland, a Polish F-16's AIM-120 AMRAAM malfunctioned and struck a house in Wyryki-Wola, Włodawa County. It did not detonate. - 🇵🇱 · Sep 9, 2025 · Gałczyce
Gerbera decoy found at Gałczyce mine, undetected since September
A lignite mine worker at Gałczyce, Poland found a Russian Gerbera decoy on March 12, 2026 - undetected since the September 9-10, 2025 mass drone incursion. - 🇵🇱 · Sep 5, 2025 · Majdan Sielec
Russian Gerbera decoy found in field near Majdan Sielec, Poland
A Russian Gerbera decoy drone was found near Majdan Sielec, Poland, on September 6, 2025, roughly 50 km from the Ukrainian border. Pre-flight markings confirmed Russian origin. - 🇵🇱 · Aug 19, 2025 · Osiny
Shahed drone crashes near Osiny, undetected for 2.5 hours
A Russian Shahed drone with a Chinese MD550 engine crashed near Osiny, Łuków County, Poland around 02:00 CEST on August 20, 2025, after flying undetected for 2.5 hours.
Counts and the list are built from the AirVeto incident archive. Methodology: see /about/methodology. AirVeto is situational awareness and decision support, used alongside official systems. It does not replace them.