European leaders meet in high-security Danish summit after drone disruption

EU leaders were gathered on Wednesday in Copenhagen under pressure to increase the European defense after a series of Russian attacks on the EU airspace, and days after drones targeting Denmark airports.

It has become the most acute for countries in the Eastern wing of the EU, such as Poland and Estonia. The ten member states supported plans for a multi -layered “drone wall” to quickly identify plans, then monitor and destroy Russian drones.

Denmark provided security before the summit, Prohibiting all civil drone flights until Friday And put heavy restrictions on traffic in Copenhagen.

Despite the high security, there was evidence of alarm at the center of the capital before the summit.

Danish will also host a wider European political community summit on Thursday and supported the international allies to ensure that both events go without incident.

Copenhagen Airport followed a few Danish airports and military areas on the Jutland Peninsula.

According to Denmark’s army, ten allies provide anti-immediately and surveillance support. “The increasing presence of foreign units and equipment”. Poland, England, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United States are among the contributing countries. A German frigate entered Copenhagen.

Danish, which has been home to dozens of European leaders for two days, will want to swing more unwanted surprises.

Danish police could not find any evidence Russia accused a “professional actor” that Russia was behind the drone deduction, that it did not cause injury, but the government accused a “professional actor”. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, “First of all, it is a country that poses a threat to Europe’s security – that is, Russia.”

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson “everything points to everything [Russia]”.

According to Kristerson, Stockholm loaned his neighbor to his neighbor for two peaks “one handful of powerful radar system”.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev sent a task to Denmark for common exercises to provide “Ukraine experience in drone defense”.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the airport attacks worsen before the summit and worsened, and “assuming that drones come from Russia”.

Drones have been seen recently Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northern province, and flights were delayed last week at Vilnius airport in Lithuania and at Oslo Airport in Norway due to drone activity.

“We are not in war, but we are no longer in peace. We have to do much more for our own security.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Germany’s “indirectly” in the war in Ukraine for a long time, and that Russia rejected “unfounded accusations” in last week’s disruptions in Denmark.

He said on Tuesday that instead of building a “divisive” drone wall “in Europe, it would be better than looking for dialogue about security problems.

The concern about Russia’s activities in the eastern wing of Europe is concerned that it came together twice in September under Article 4 of NATO’s Treaty. DRONS Violated the Polish airspace And then when Russian Mig-31 fighter planes entered Estonia airport 12 minutes.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who met with the European Commission Chief Ursula von Der Leyen in Brussels on the eve of the Copenhagen summit, said, “We should keep our bars safe.”

The idea of ​​a drone wall was raised by von der leyen a month ago, and the rutte said that it was “timely and necessary, because we can’t spend millions of euros or dollars to remove drones that cost only a few thousand dollars”.

A high -level EU diplomat told the BBC that there were still questions about the financing of the plan and excessive command and control, but Europe’s response to Russia’s Drone violations in Poland led to some serious mood: “We must be more agile and find better tools.”

A former Brigadier General Ole Kvaerno in the Danish army told the BBC that the drone wall was “now a political, very general concept”, but last week’s drone activity is a call for a wake up for the authorities and the wider danger population.

He warned that the target of the next attack may be different.

“There may be infrastructure like energy supply,” said Kvaerno from the Danish Defense Robotics and Autonomy Center. “The nature of the hybrid war aims to surprise us. So we don’t end with operational shocks like this.”

Another flagship project, called Eastern Flank Watch, aims to strengthen the east borders of the EU with sea, air and land to protect the eastern borders of Hybrid war and Russia’s shadow fleet. Von Der Leyen said that the EU should cooperate with both NATO and Ukraine.

EU leaders will show a “roadmap” plans aimed at supporting defenses to produce state -of -the -art military equipment at the end of the decade and developing Europe’s defense industries. Plans will then work with NATO before the EU leaders are gathered again later on this month.

According to their plans to be “ready for 2030”, Europe needs to move now, so that their talents are prepared for “battlefields of tomorrow”.

One of the main ideas is to focus on more and more common supply. The EU supported proposals in capital markets up to € 150 billion (£ 130 billion) in capital markets to help finance defense investments. England and Canada are likely to participate in the fund.

The EU’s financial support for Ukraine will be discussed for more than three and a half years for Russia’s full -scale war.

Ukraine is also a candidate to join the EU, but Kiev faces opposition and tensions from Hungary along his common limits after accusing Budapeş of sending discovery drones to Western Ukraine.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of Hungary’s closest allies in the EU, claimed that Ukraine was not a dominant country because it was financed by the West.