Drone incidents along NATO’s eastern flank have fueled mounting tensions between Russia, Romania, and Poland. Bucharest summoned Moscow’s envoy after an unidentified drone entered Romanian airspace, which Russia dismissed as a “Kyiv provocation.” Romania scrambled F-16 jets to track the drone, which later vanished from radar without threatening civilians. Poland, meanwhile, closed Lublin airport and invoked NATO’s Article 4 after reporting Russian drones breached its territory. Warsaw sounded air raid sirens and reinforced defenses along the border. Both Romania and Poland have previously discovered drone fragments since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, intensifying fears of wider NATO-Russia confrontation. Watch