COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Danish protection ministry stated Saturday that “drones have been noticed at a number of of Danish protection services” in a single day Friday into Saturday. The renewed drone sightings come after there have been a number of drone sightings within the Nordic nation earlier this week, with a few of them quickly shutting down Danish airports.
The Danish protection ministry didn’t say the place precisely the drones have been seen, however a number of native media reported that a number of have been seen close to or above the navy Karup Air Base.
Danish public broadcaster DR reported that there have been drones within the air each inside and out of doors the fence of the air base at round 8 p.m., quoting Simon Skelkjær, the responsibility supervisor on the Central and West Jutland Police.
DR stated that for a time period the airspace was closed to civil air visitors, however that didn’t have a lot sensible significance as there’s presently no civil aviation in Karup.
The repeated unexplained drone exercise, together with over 4 Danish airports in a single day Wednesday into Thursday and the same incident at Copenhagen Airport, has raised issues about safety in northern Europe amid suspected rising Russian aggression.
The Copenhagen drones grounded flights within the Danish capital for hours on Monday night time,
The objective of the flyovers is to sow worry and division, Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard stated Thursday, including that the nation will search extra methods to neutralize drones, together with proposing laws to permit infrastructure house owners to shoot them down.
For the upcoming European Union summit subsequent week, the Danish protection ministry confirmed on X that the nation’s authorities had accepted a suggestion from Sweden to “lend Denmark a navy anti-drone functionality,” with out giving additional particulars.
In neighboring Germany, a number of drones have been reported within the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which borders Denmark, from Thursday into Friday night time.
The state’s inside minister, Sabine Sütterlin-Waack, stated that “the state police are presently considerably stepping up their drone protection measures, additionally in coordination with different northern German states,” German information company dpa reported. She didn’t present any additional particulars, citing the continued investigations.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that in regard to frequent assaults on infrastructure and knowledge networks, “we’re not at conflict, however we’re not residing in peace both.” He didn’t allude to a sure nation because the actor behind these assaults.
“Drone flights, espionage, the Tiergarten homicide, huge threats to particular person public figures, not solely in Germany but additionally in lots of different European international locations. Acts of sabotage every day. Makes an attempt to paralyze knowledge facilities. Cyberattacks,” he added throughout a speech on the Schwarz Ecosystem Summit in Berlin on Friday, dpa reported.
What grew to become generally known as the “Tiergarten homicide” in Germany refers back to the case of Vadim Krasikov, who was convicted of the Aug. 23, 2019, killing of Zelimkhan “Tornike” Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old Georgian citizen who had fought Russian troops in Chechnya and later claimed asylum in Germany. Krasikov was returned to Russia as a part of a huge prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia in 2024.
