Denmark on Sunday ordered a ban on civil drone flights, after a number of unmanned aerial autos have been witnessed at navy services in a single day, following every week by which drone sorties induced the momentary closures of a number of airports within the Nordic nation.
The Danish navy stated it had deployed “a number of capacities” in response to the in a single day drone sightings.
Earlier this week, drones compelled Denmark to shut its airports, together with Copenhagen Airport, which was closed for almost 4 hours on Monday.
Denmark has known as the drones a part of a “hybrid assault” however the authorities has stopped in need of saying definitively who it believes is behind the missions.
However, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has stated Russia is the principle “nation that poses a menace to European safety.”
“We’re presently in a tough safety state of affairs, and we should guarantee the absolute best working circumstances for the armed forces and the police when they’re accountable for safety in the course of the EU summit,” Protection Minister Troels Lund Poulsen stated in a press release on Sunday.
When will the drone ban be and why?
Civilian drones will likely be banned from Danish airspace from Monday via Friday of the approaching week.
The Nordic nation holds the rotating European Council presidency for the second half of 2025. Denmark will host EU leaders on Wednesday, adopted by a summit on Thursday of the broader, 47-member European Political Group, set as much as unite the bloc with different pleasant European nations after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A German air protection frigate arrived in Copenhagen on Sunday to help with airspace surveillance.
Is Russia behind the drone exercise?
It’s not clear who’s behind the drone missions however Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and NATO Secretary-Common Mark Rutte have each stated the notion of Russia being the perpetrator couldn’t be dominated out.
In the meantime, the Russian embassy in Denmark final week rejected claims of Moscow’s involvement.
Edited by: Dmytro Hubenko