Forty-eight hours after drone activity closed the Copenhagen airport for four hours, more drone activity was reported overnight Sept. 24-25 near Aalborg Airport in northern Denmark (closed for five hours), which includes a military section, as well as three other airports in the country, police said this morning. One of the other airports was the military base in Skrydstrup, where the Danish F-35 and F-16 planes are placed, and there were also drones above another military installation. There were sightings of blinking lights above two other airports, but it was not confirmed that there were drones.
The Defense and Justice Ministers called it a hybrid attack on critical infrastructure, and the media are calling the events the biggest security crisis in decades. The national operations staff has been put on active duty 24 hours a day. The police raised the threat-level for the whole country. The government security committee—consisting of the prime minister, and the defense, foreign, justice, and preparedness ministers—met on Sept. 25, and the political party leaders were oriented.
Norway confiscated one of the drones that flew over Oslo airport. Denmark did not shoot any of the drones down, fearing for the safety of the population, but is now trying to acquire special equipment to neutralize them.
Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said that “we have no basis for making a direct link to Russia.” The government has reached out to NATO, and will decide later today if they will invoke the NATO treaty’s Article 4. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who said that she could not rule out that Russia was behind the drones, has spoken to NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte. German Defense Minister Pretorius blamed the Danish drone activity on Russian President Putin.
