Russia’s involvement cannot be excluded, says the Danish PM

The incursion of the drone that stopped flights to Copenhagen Airport on Monday evening was “the most serious attack on Danish infrastructure so far,” said Denmark Primemark, Frederiksen.

Kastrup airport in Copenhagen was forced to close for several hours from 8:30 p.m. (6.30 p.m. GMT) Monday after the observation of a certain number of drones.

“That said, something about the moments when we live and what we, as a company, must be ready to treat,” Frederiksen told journalists.

Russian participation could not be excluded, added Frederiksen – although the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described the allegations of “unsolved”.

The Danish PM has established a link between last night’s events in Denmark and the recent Russian drone incursions in Poland and Romania, as well as the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter planes.

Frederiksen said that the motive for the incursion to Copenhagen had probably been to “disturb, create troubles … to see how far you can go and test the limits”.

Danish intelligence reflected this evaluation, claiming that the country faced a “high sabotage threat”.

“Someone does not necessarily want to attack us, but rather insist and see how we react,” said Flemming Drejer, Operations Director of Denmark’s Intelligence Service Pet.

In neighboring Norway, Oslo airport was also closed for a period after possible drone observations.

About 20,000 passengers were affected by the closure of Copenhagen airport, which resumed operations after midnight local time.

Earlier Tuesday, Danish police said that she did not know who was behind the drones, but this evidence suggested that it was a “capable actor”.

A number of large drones from different directions “far enough” had been observed at Copenhagen airport, said police inspector Jenssen.

He added that the drones, which lit and turn off their lights as the airport approaches, had been exploited by someone who had the “will and the tools to show … perhaps also to practice”.

The police have not shot down the drones because the airport is located in a densely built area and because there were planes in the air, Jespersen told Inspersen.

In an article on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky referred to the “Russian violation” of NATO airspace in Copenhagen on September 22.

Inspector Jespersen refused to comment on the allegations of Zelensky.

“Just because I don’t want to, it’s because I just don’t know,” he said.

The Norwegian police security service said it worked to clarify whether the drone observation is not confirmed at Oslo airport could be linked to Denmark drones.

Oslo airport was closed between 00:30 and 03:30 and fourteen flights had to be diverted.

The Norwegian government said Russia raped Norwegian airspace three times in 2025 – in April, July and August – adding that it was not clear if it was deliberate or the result of navigation errors.

“Whatever the cause, it is not acceptable,” said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.

Tensions have recently increased after Russian drones and planes ventured into the airspace in central and eastern Europe, three and a half years after Moscow launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine.

Earlier in September, at least three Russian drones were killed by varnish and other NATO planes in Poland’s airspace. Moscow denied that he had tried to target the installations on Polish soil.

A similar incident occurred in Romania only a few days later when a drone flew to Romanian airspace before disappearing from the radar.

And on Saturday, three Russian mig-31 hunting planes entered the Estonian sky and stayed there for 12 minutes, which led NATO planes to scramble. The incursions were part of a “wider model of Russian behavior increasingly irresponsible,” NATO said on Tuesday in a statement.

In recent days, Poland has said that it has shot down all the objects that violated its airspace, while Sweden had promised to do the same if it spotted a Russian plane in its sky.

In response to the incursions of Russia in Poland and Romania, NATO has undertaken to move troops and fighter planes to the east.

Plans of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Denmark participate in air defense missions against Poland in order to strengthen the eastern flank of the Alliance.