Denmark bans civil drones after extra sightings – DW

[ad_1] Denmark on Sunday ordered a ban on civil drone flights, after a number of unmanned aerial autos had been witnessed at army services in a single day, following every week by which drone sorties precipitated the momentary closures of a number of airports within the Nordic nation.

The Danish army mentioned it had deployed "a number of capacities" in response to the in a single day drone sightings.

Earlier this week, drones compelled Denmark to shut its airports, together with Copenhagen Airport, which was closed for practically 4 hours on Monday.

Denmark has known as the drones a part of a "hybrid assault" however the authorities has stopped wanting saying definitively who it believes is behind the missions.

However, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has mentioned Russia is the principle "nation that poses a risk to European safety."

"We're at the moment in a troublesome safety state of affairs, and we should guarantee the absolute best working situations for the armed forces and the police when they're chargeable for safety throughout the EU summit," Protection Minister Troels Lund Poulsen mentioned in a press release on Sunday.

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When will the drone ban be and why?

Civilian drones might be banned from Danish airspace from Monday via Friday of the approaching week.

The Nordic nation holds the rotating European Council presidency for the second half of 2025. Denmark will host EU leaders on Wednesday, adopted by a summit on Thursday of the broader, 47-member European Political Group, set as much as unite the bloc with different pleasant European international locations after Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A German air protection frigate arrived in Copenhagen on Sunday to help with airspace surveillance.

Is Russia behind the drone exercise?

It isn't clear who's behind the drone missions however Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and NATO Secretary-Basic Mark Rutte have each mentioned the notion of Russia being the perpetrator couldn't be dominated out.