Russia’s involvement cannot be ruled out, Danish PM says
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that the drone attack that stopped flights at Copenhagen Airport on Monday night was the “the most violent attack on the Denmark infrastructure so far”.
Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen was forced to close for several hours after 20:30 (18:30 GMT) on Monday following the opinion of a series of drones.
“Frederiiksen told journalists,” When we live and what we need to deal with as a society, “he says. He said.
Although Kremlin spokesman Dmitry described the allegations of Peskov as “unfounded”, Russian participation could not be excluded.
The Danish Prime Minister made a connection between last night in Denmark and the latest Russian drone attacks in Poland and Romania. Violation of the Estonia airspace by Russian fighter aircraft.
Frederiksen said that the attack motive in Copenhagen was probably “breaking, creating restlessness” to see how long you can progress and test the boundaries.
Danish intelligence reflected this assessment by saying that the country is facing a “high sabotage threat”.
“Someone may not want to attack us, but may not want to emphasize us and see how we react,” Danish Intelligence Service Pet’s operation director Flemming Drejer said. He said.
About 20,000 passengers Affected by the closure of Copenhagen airportHe continued operations after midnight in local time.
On Tuesday, the Danish police previously claimed that they did not know who was behind the drones, but this was a “talented actor”.
Police Inspector Jespersen said that some large drones from different directions were observed in Copenhagen Airport.
He added that the drones that open and close their lights as they approached the airport were operated by someone who is “will and tools to be shown to practice”.
The police did not hit the drones because the airport was in an intense area and there were planes in the air, Insp Jespersen told journalists.
In a mission on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky referred to the NATO airspace in Copenhagen on September 22, “Violation of Russia”.
Insp Jespersen refused to comment on Zelensky’s allegations.
“This is not because I don’t want it, because I don’t know,” he said.
Norwegian Police Security Service, Oslo Airport’s unrefined drone view is trying to clarify whether the drones observed in Denmark are related.
Oslo Airport was closed between 00:30 and 03:30 and fourteen flights were directed.
Three and a half years after Moscow launched a full -scale Ukrainian invasion, tensions have recently increased after Russian drones and planes entered the Middle and Eastern European airspace.
In the early September At least three Russian planes were shot by the polish and other NATO aircraft in Poland’s airspace. Moscow rejected that he was trying to target facilities in Poland.
A similar event Romania just after a few days When a drone flew to Romania airspace before getting lost from radar.
And on Saturday, three Russian Mig-31 fighter planes entered the sky and stayed there for 12 minutes and caused NATO jets to be mixed.
In recent days, Poland said that he would hit any object that violated the airspace, and promised to do the same if he noticed any Russian plane in the Swedish heavens.
In response to Russia’s attacks on Poland and Romania, NATO promised to move troops and war flights to the east.
Aircraft from England, France, Germany and Denmark are participating in air defense tasks on Poland to support the eastern wing of the alliance.
