Denmark has quickly banned civil drone flights in its airspace because it prepares to host a prime European Union assembly on protection and the struggle in Ukraine, and after a surge of suspicious drone exercise at a number of airports and army websites final week.
The ban, which runs from Monday to Friday, goals to get rid of any threat of “hostile” drones being mistaken for authorized ones or vice versa, the nation’s transport minister Thomas Danielson informed CNN.
A number of unexplained sightings of drones over civilian airports and a army base had been reported in Denmark last week. The incidents pressured a number of airports to quickly shut and disrupted journey for tens of 1000’s of individuals.
High European leaders will descend on Copenhagen on Wednesday for a European Council assembly to debate protection and Ukraine, adopted by a European Political Group summit within the metropolis the subsequent day.
“We’re presently in a troublesome safety scenario, and we should guarantee the very best working situations for the armed forces and the police when they’re liable for safety throughout the EU summit,” Danish Protection Minister Troels Lund Poulsen mentioned in a press release on Sunday.
Drones had been noticed at Aalborg Airport (pictured) in Denmark on Wednesday, September 24, in a single day into Thursday. – Bo Amstrup/AP
Europe has been on excessive alert in latest weeks attributable to a string of drone sightings, in addition to incursions by Russian drones into NATO airspace over Poland and Romania and the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets.
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