NATO’s counter-drone exercise tests Europe’s air-defense gaps
NATO’s Baltic Trust exercise in Riga ended August 14 after testing allied counter-drone coordination, but public evidence does not yet show whether key gaps were closed.
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Ukraine strike kills 17 as NATO airspace incidents keep Europe’s eastern flank on alert
A Russian barrage killed 17 people in Ukraine’s Kyiv region on August 5, while a French Rafale shot down a drone in Latvian airspace during a NATO mission in June.
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NATO Begins Baltic Counter-Drone Exercise in Latvia
NATO has begun Baltic Trust 2026 in Riga, testing allied detection, command coordination and suppression tactics against massed drone incursions.