Denmark reports more drone sightings ahead of European summits | Denmark
Danish officials said that drones were seen in various military regions overnight and that Copenhagen announced that all civilian use of unmanned planes will be banned because they are preparing to host two European summits.
The Danish Ministry of Defense said on Sunday, on Saturday night without further details, the armed forces said he observed drones in their places. The Ministry of Transport said that the Drone will be banned to ensure security of all civilian use, and that Denmark hosted a meeting of a European political community, which is an EU summit and a wider leader than the continent.
He said that the movement would eliminate the risk of confusion of enemy drones with legal drones ve and vice versa and vice versa, and that the violation of the ban could cause a fine or two -year imprisonment.
In recent weeks, a series of drone attacks in Denmark, Poland and Romania and Russia continued to bombard Ukraine by the Russian fighter aircraft as a violation of the Estonia airspace.
On Sunday, the German air defense frigate FSG Hamburg came to Copenhagen to contribute to the “strengthening the supervision of Denmark’s airspace” in front of the next summits.
The frigate is part of NATO’s “Baltic Sentry” mission, which the Alliance says it aims to strengthen this weekend. A NATO spokesman said that there would be “even more advanced alertness ında in the Baltic Sea region, including Denmark.
“Baltic Sentry” – NATO frigates, deployment of drones to protect aircraft and infrastructure – power cables on the base of the Baltic Sea, telecom connections and a series of events in January were launched in January.
In response to Russian drone attacks of the Poland airspace, NATO launched the “East Sentry ef at the beginning of this month to support the defense of Europe’s eastern wing.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, who wrote on X on Sunday, said that he spoke to Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre about “increasing events with Russian drones on Europe ve and“ European unity will definitely respond to this threat ”.
In the early hours of Sunday, Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles in a 12 -hour bombardment that killed at least four people in Kiev and other Ukraine cities.
Russia refused to deliberately target NATO countries with drones. Kremlin, the authorities are still behind the suspicious hybrid attack, but said that it could not exclude Russia last week after the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen accused “unfounded claims”.
Drone attacks also influenced Norway, accusing Russia of violating Norway’s airspace three times during spring and summer.
After a two -day meeting of NATO military chiefs in Riga, Adm Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, President of the NATO Military Committee, said: “NATO’s air, every threat to land and sea areas will be discussed with a determined and proportional response.”
When asked whether NATO’s air police mission in Baltic can be raised to the air defense, Cavo Dragone stressed that the reference of drones is still investigated, but “This may be an option depending on what the final assessment would be”.
