Copenhagen airport closed for hours for large and unidentified drones that fly close

Copenhagen, Denmark – Flights at Copenhagen airport resumed the morning of Tuesday after being suspended or diverted during the night due to drone sightings. Police reported that two or three large and unidentified drones were seen on Monday night, which forced outgoing flights at the largest airport in Scandinavia to be punished and others deviated to nearby airports.

“The Copenhagen airport has reopened after being closed due to the activity of the drones. However, there will be delays and some canceled exits. The passengers are advised to consult with their airline to obtain more information,” said the airport’s website.

Local media showed an important police presence in the vicinity of the airport.

A drone incident on the same night at Oslo airport, Norway, forced all the traffic to move to a track, according to the Norwegian station NRK. The traffic then returned to normal and it is not clear who was responsible.

The unknown perpetrator in Copenhagen was a drone pilot capable of flying many miles to get to the airport, said Jens Jespersen from the Copenhagen Police during a press conference on Tuesday morning. The pilot seemed to be showing his skills, he said.

“The number, size, flight patterns, the time at the airport. All this together … indicates that he is an actor capable. Which that the actor capable does not know,” said Jespersen.

Police decided not to break down the drones due to the risk that represents their location near the airport full of passengers, airplanes and closer fuel deposits, he said.

The researchers are looking at how drones arrived at the airport, either by land or possibly in boats that arrive through the strategic lines towards the Baltic Sea.

Jespersen said the authorities could not rule out the possibility that drones are part of a Russian hybrid attack.

Russian drones and combat aircraft raids in Europe raise concern

Security concerns in northern Europe have been increased after an increase in Russian sabotage activities and multiple incursions of drones and combat aircraft in the Air Space of NATO in recent weeks, which have seen some of the United States European allies of the United States accuse Moscow of serious provocations in the middle of the ongoing acts Russian Ukraine Invasion.

The Russian drones were Directed by Poles and Allied combat aircraft of NATO After crossing Polish airspace on September 9. Ten days later, Estonia said that several Russian combat planes entered their airspace.

President Latvian, Edgars Rinkevics, said on social networks that Russia was testing NATO’s political and military response and with the aim of reducing Western support to Ukraine by bringing countries to redirect resources towards the defense of the countries of the Alliance.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied on Monday that Russian airplanes entered Estonia’s airspace, saying that they remained in the international airspace and accusing European nations of “growing tensions and causing an atmosphere of confrontation.”

However, Jonatan Vseviov, who directs the Estonia Foreign Ministry, told the country’s public broadcaster, that the government had “irrefutable evidence” of the Russian incursion, and added: “The fact that Russia is in a provocative and dangerous violating the airspace of an NATO country is one thing.

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