Denmark flights reached again by drone incursions lead “systematic”

Denmark said Thursday that drone incursions that briefly closed two of its airports and affected military facilities during the night were hybrid attacks intended to spread fear, but that the officials did not know who was behind them.

Incidents are only the latter in a series of drone incursions in recent weeks – of which two days ago in Denmark – who have exhibited the vulnerability of European airspace and the challenges that the governments are confronted by contravening them.

Danish authorities said Thursday that they had decided not to withdraw any of the drones in its airspace for security reasons, despite the disruptions caused to air traffic.

Billud Airport, the second largest in Denmark, has been closed for an hour, and Aalborg airport, used for commercial and military flights, was closed for three hours due to drone incurs on Wednesday evening, Danish police announced.

The two reopened Thursday morning.

Drones were also observed during the night near the Esbjerg and Sonderborg airports, as well as the Skrydstrup air base, which houses some of the Denmark F-16 and F-35 fighter, and on a military installation in Holstebro, police told Reuters.

All the affected locations are on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark.

“It certainly does not resemble a coincidence. It seems systematic. This is what I would define as a hybrid attack,” Danish Minister Troels, Lund Poulsen, said to the journalists, adding that the country was not facing any direct military threat.

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Local resident Morten Skov told Reuters that he had seen flashing green lights from the west of Aalborg airport, which “was still standing above” of the installation.

In a video shared with Skov Reuters, Light is walking away from the airport to the west.

Danish national police said the drones had followed a model similar to those who stopped theft at Copenhagen Airport late Monday and Tuesday.

Russia denies its participation

The latest drone incursions in Denmark are just a week after Copenhagen said that she would acquire long -range precision weapons to counter the threat posed to Europe by Russia, in what Prime Minister puts Frederiksen said he was a “paradigm change in Danish defense policy”.

The recent initiatives of Denmark to stimulate its military spending aroused strong criticism from Russia, including plans to accommodate the production of Ukrainian missile fuel near Skrydstrup air base.

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Frederiksen described the incident of Copenhagen airport as the most serious attack to date on the critical infrastructure of Denmark and has linked it to a series of alleged Russian drone incursions and other disturbances across Europe, without testifying.

Russian ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin denied any involvement by his country in the Copenhagen incident. Russia has not commented on the latest drone incidents on Jutland.

Poulsen said that the government had not yet decided if it would request consultations under NATO Article 4. Under this article of the founding treaty of the military alliance, members can bring any concern, in particular linked to security, for discussion, allowing more time to determine the measures to be taken.

Poland invoked article 4 earlier this month after lowering Russian drones on its territory, in what Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he was a “large-scale provocation” by Russia. Moscow said he had planned to reach any target in Poland while conducting drone attacks against western neighboring Ukraine.

On Tuesday when he asked by a journalist from the United Nations if he thinks that NATO members should cut down Russian planes that enter the Alliance airspace, US President Donald Trump replied: “Yes, I do it.”