What, specifically, is your family seeing?

So far there are some troops near the Polish border, and a possible helicopter incursion. There's not a lot that civilions could see unless they lived right on the border.

> possible helicopter incursion

It's not a possible. And yes there are people living 'right on the border'.

If I lived on the border, I'd be upset, too. However, this isn't very far from standard Russian way of doing things. They regularly invade air space of various NATO countries, maybe just to test their fighters, maybe to introduce some tension, who knows. The routine is that our fighters escort the intruders back to where they came from. In this case, since the military training was communicated well in advance and the army was expected their aircraft near the border, nobody even bothered. Funnily enough, the last news from Belarus indicate that it might be in fact an accident, not planned action.

Wars can get started by stupid shit like this. I'm definitely not laughing. All it needs is one incident like what happened over Turkey. That one blew over but with the present climate I'm not so sure it will.