Copenhagen, Denmark — Flights at Copenhagen Airport resumed early Tuesday after being suspended or diverted in a single day due to drone sightings. Police reported two to a few massive, unidentified drones have been seen Monday night time, forcing outgoing flights at Scandinavia’s largest airport to be grounded and others diverted to airports close by.
“Copenhagen Airport has reopened after being closed due to drone activity. However, there will be delays and some canceled departures. Passengers are advised to check with their airline for further information,” the airport’s web site mentioned.
Native media confirmed a big police presence within the neighborhood of the airport.
A drone incident the identical night on the Oslo, Norway, airport pressured all site visitors to maneuver to at least one runway, in keeping with Norwegian broadcaster NRK. Visitors later returned to regular and it’s unclear who was accountable.
Danish police are seen at Copenhagen Airport, in Kastrup close to Copenhagen, Sept. 22, 2025, after two or three unidentified, massive drones have been seen flying close to the airport.
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“The number, size, flight patterns, time over the airport. All this together… indicates that it is a capable actor. Which capable actor, I do not know,” Jespersen mentioned.
Police selected to not shoot down the drones because of the danger posed by their location close to the airport stuffed with passengers, planes on runways and close by gas depots, he mentioned.
Investigators are taking a look at how the drones reached the airport — whether or not it was by land or presumably on boats coming by means of the strategic straights into the Baltic Sea.
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Jespersen mentioned authorities couldn’t rule out the potential of the drones being a part of a Russian hybrid assault.
Russian drone and warplane incursions into Europe elevate concern
Safety considerations in northern Europe have been heightened following a rise in Russian sabotage actions and a number of drone and fighter jet incursions into NATO airspace in latest weeks, which have seen a few of America’s European NATO allies accuse Moscow of significant provocations amid the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russian drones have been shot down by Polish and allied NATO warplanes after crossing into Polish airspace on Sept. 9. Ten days later, Estonia mentioned a number of Russian fighter jets entered its airspace.
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics mentioned on social media that Russia was testing NATO’s political and navy response and aiming to cut back Western help for Ukraine by compelling international locations to redirect sources towards the protection of alliance international locations.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday denied that Russian planes entered Estonia’s airspace, saying they remained in worldwide airspace and accusing European nations of “escalating tensions and provoking a confrontational atmosphere.”
Jonatan Vseviov, who heads the Estonian overseas ministry, informed the nation’s ERR public broadcaster, nonetheless, that the federal government had “irrefutable evidence” of the Russian incursion, including: “The fact that Russia is provocatively and dangerously violating the airspace of a NATO country is one thing. The fact that it is openly lying to the whole world about it is another.”
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