Denmark reports drone observations in military facilities while NATO warns Russia to violate airspace

New night drones observations Friday to Saturday came after several drone observations in the Nordic country earlier this week, some of them temporarily closed Danish airports.

Several local media reported that one or more drones were seen near or above the Karup air base, which is the largest military base in Denmark.

The Ministry of Defense refused to confirm the observation in Karup or elsewhere and said that “for operational security reasons and the current investigation, the Denmark defense command does not wish to develop more on drone observations.”

The ministry later added to the public broadcaster Dr that additional drone activity reports at the Skrydstrup air base and Jutland Dracoon Regiment referred to observations that did not occur during the night from Friday to Saturday. His previous declaration seemed to be involved in the timing and was widely reported.

The ministry could not be reached immediately for confirmation, but a declaration on its website referring to the base incidents and the barracks was dated Thursday – although it did not directly confirm that the observations took place that day.

Anxiety and suspicion

Tensions have been raised in Denmark in recent days after various drone activity reports, and hundreds of possible observations reported by concerned citizens have not been officially confirmed. However, the public was invited to report all suspicious activities to the police.

On Saturday, DR and several other local media reported that in Karup, there were drones in the air inside and outside the air base fence around 8 p.m. Friday, quoting Simon Skelkjær, director of central police and Jutland West.

Dr. said that for a while, airspace was closed to civil air traffic, but that did not have much practical meaning because there is currently no civil aviation in Karup.

The repeated activity of unexplained drones, including more than four Danish night airports on Thursday to Thursday and a similar incident at Copenhagen airport, has raised concerns about security in northern Europe in the middle of an increasing Russian assault.

The flights were anchored in the Danish capital for hours on Monday evening.

The objective of overflights is to sow fear and division, the Danish Minister of Judge Peter Hummelgaard said on Thursday, adding that the country will seek additional means of neutralizing drones, in particular by proposing legislation to allow infrastructure owners to shoot them down.

For the next European Union summit next week, the Denmark Ministry of Defense said on X that the country’s government had accepted an offer from Sweden to “lend a military anti-drone capacity”, without giving more details.

German reports of drone observations

In neighboring Germany, several drones were reported in the northern state of the German of Schleswig-Holstein, which borders Denmark, from Thursday to Friday evening.

The Minister of the Interior of the State, Sabine Sütterlin-Wack, said that “the State police are currently intensifying their measures to define drones, also in coordination with other states in northern Germany,” reported the German news agency DPA. She did not provide more details, citing the current investigations.

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told journalists on Saturday afternoon that his ministry is working on new anti -line rules that aim to detect, intercept and – if necessary – also shoot drones.

Thursday, European Defense Ministers agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to better detect, follow and intercept drones violating Europe.

The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that as regards frequent attacks on infrastructure and data networks, “we are not at war, but we are no longer living in peace either. He did not allude to a certain country as an actor behind these attacks.

“Drone flights, espionage, the murder of Tiergarten, massive threats to individual public figures, not only in Germany, but also in many other European countries. Acts of sabotage on a daily basis. Tents to paralyze the data centers. Cyberattacks,” he added during a speech at the Schwarz Summit Ecosystem in Berlin on Friday.

What has become known as the “murder of Tiergarten” in Germany refers to the case of Vadim Krasikov, who was found guilty of August 23, 2019, of Khangoshvili “Tornike” by Zelimkhan, a 40 -year -old Georgian citizen who had fought the Russian troops in Tchchea and later asked for the Asule in Germany. Krasikov was sent back to Russia as part of an exchange of massive prisoners between the United States and Russia in 2024.

One of the six slopes of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport was closed for about 45 minutes early Saturday afternoon after reporting a drone observation around noon (1000 GMT), Military Police Doron Wallin told the Associated Press. The planes were redirected to another track.

Wallin said that no drone or drone pilot had been found and that the track was reopened. He said that these reported observations are a regular occurrence, with 22 so far this year.

NATO discusses the violations of airspace

Later on Saturday, the administrator Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, president of the NATO military committee, said at a NATO meeting in Riga, in Latvia, that “Russian planes and drones, in addition to the already existing measures, will now find the resolute response of the activity of Sentinelle and already operational and already operational.

“Russia is full responsibility for these actions,” said Dragone. “Today, I express a complete and unequivocal solidarity with all the allies whose air space has been violated. The alliance’s response has been robust and will only strengthen,” he said.

President Latvian Edgars Rinkēvičs said that “the immediate priority today is clearly air defense”.

“Russia continues a provocative scheme, which is more recently violating the airspace of Poland and Estonia,” said Rinkēvičs.