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‘Hybrid Attack’: drones about Danish airports meant to spread anxiety, the authorities say
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‘Hybrid Attack’: drones about Danish airports meant to spread anxiety, the authorities say

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Drone raids that had briefly closed two of the airports of Denmark and affected military installations were hybrid attacks that were meant to spread fear, the authorities say, but they do not know who was behind them.
The incidents are only the last in a series of drone raids – including two days ago in Denmark – in recent weeks that have uncovered the vulnerability of European airspace and the challenges that governments are confronted to prevent them.
Danish authorities said on Thursday that they decided to remove none of the drones in his airspace for safety reasons, despite the disruption caused on air traffic.
Billund Airport, the second largest in Denmark, was closed for an hour, and Aalborg Airport, used for commercial and military flights, was closed for three hours due to the drone raids late on Wednesday, said the Danish police.
Both were reopened on Thursday morning.
Drones were also observed at night near airports in Esbjerg and Sonderborg, as well as Skrydstrup Air Base, the home base of some Van Denmark’s F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, and about a military facility in Holstebro, the police told Reuters.

All affected locations are on the Jutland peninsula in the west of Denmark.

‘It looks systematic’: the Danish Minister of Defense

“It certainly doesn’t look no coincidence. It looks systematically. This is what I would define as a hybrid attack,” the Danish Minister of Defense told Troels Lund Poulsen to reporters, adding that the country had no direct military threat.

Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen described the drone raid as a “hybrid attack”. Source: EPA / Emil Helms

Local resident Morten Skov said he saw green flashing lights coming from the west of Aalborg airport, which was “the facility”.

In a video shared by Skov, light is seen that goes from the airport to the west.
Danish National Police said that the drones had followed a similar pattern as those of the flights at Copenhagen airport late on Monday and early Tuesday.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described the incident at Copenhagen airport as the most serious “attack”, yet on the critical infrastructure of Denmark and all the associated Russian drone raids and other disruptions throughout Europe, without providing evidence.

Russia denies involvement

The Russian ambassador in Denmark, Vladimir Barbin, denied every involvement throughout his country in the incident with Copenhagen.
Russia has not commented on the latest drone incidents about Jutland.
Poulsen said that the government had not yet decided whether she would ask for consultations under NATO’s article 4.

According to that article of the founding treaty of the military alliance, members can bring any issue of concern, especially related to safety, for discussion, making more time to determine which steps to take.

Poland called on Article 4 earlier in September after he defeated the drones across his territory, in what the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said it was a “large -scale provocation” by Russia.
Moscow said it was not planned to touch goals in Poland while performing drone attacks on nearby West -Kraine.
The newest drone raids in Denmark only come a week after Copenhagen said that the long-distance precision management would acquire the threat set by Russia, would prevent a “paradigm shift in the Danish defense policy” in what Frederiksen said.

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