Denmark’s protection ministry stated Sunday that it had once more noticed drones at a number of of its armed forces’ places in a single day, a day after the NATO alliance introduced that it will improve its vigilance within the Baltic Sea area.
The ministry stated in an announcement that it had “several capacities deployed” after drone sightings from Saturday into Sunday evening. It didn’t provide any additional particulars concerning the specifics of the deployment, the variety of drones or places.
That is the most recent unexplained drone exercise after a number of sightings, together with over 5 Danish airports final week, elevating issues about safety in northern Europe amid suspected rising Russian aggression.
He additionally stated that NATO leaders have been in fixed contact with Danish officers following the drone sightings.
As Denmark gears up for the upcoming European Union Summit in Copenhagen, the Danish transportation ministry stated Sunday that “all civilian drone flying in Danish airspace will be prohibited” from Monday to Friday to “remove the risk that enemy drones can be confused with legal drones and vice versa.”
“We cannot accept that foreign drones create uncertainty and disturbances in society, as we have experienced recently. At the same time, Denmark will host EU leaders in the coming week, where we will have extra focus on security,” Danish transportation minister Thomas Danielsen stated in an announcement.
“A violation of the prohibition can result in a fine or imprisonment for up to two years,” in accordance with the assertion.
The prohibition doesn’t apply to army drone flights, drones utilized by state aviation, together with police and emergency drone operations, in addition to municipal and regional emergency and health-related drone operations.
A cell radar set up is seen on the Danish army web site on Amager, Pionegaarden, close to the village of Dragoer and on the coast of Oresund, the ocean between Denmark and Sweden, on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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On Sunday afternoon, the Danish protection ministry introduced that the German air protection frigate, FSG Hamburg, had arrived in Copenhagen.
“Here, the ship will contribute to strengthening Denmark’s surveillance of the airspace in connection with the upcoming EU summit in Copenhagen,” the ministry stated in an announcement. “The German frigate is part of NATO’s Baltic Sentry activity, which is intended to strengthen NATO’s presence along the alliance’s eastern flank.”
Individually, Germany stated that following a request from Denmark, its armed forces would supply army help for the upcoming EU summit by way of “Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems capabilities,” often known as C-sUAS, that are detection methods that use radar, optical and acoustics applied sciences.
Sweden had already introduced earlier that it will “lend Denmark a military anti-drone capability” with out giving additional particulars.
Tensions have been operating excessive in Denmark in latest days following studies of drone exercise, and a whole bunch of attainable sightings reported by involved residents that couldn’t formally be confirmed. Nonetheless, the general public has been requested to report all suspicious exercise to the police.
Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard stated on Sept. 25 that the objective of the flyovers is to sow worry and division, including that the nation will search extra methods to neutralize drones, together with proposing laws to permit infrastructure homeowners to shoot them down.
It’s not clear who’s liable for the drone exercise. Danish authorities haven’t named the precise army places the place they’ve been seen.
Drone sightings on Friday evening occurred at round 8:15 p.m. native time in Denmark and lasted for a number of hours, an officer on obligation instructed AFP. The officer, Simon Skelsjaer, stated police advert not shot down the drones and couldn’t touch upon their origins as police have been working with the Danish army of their investigation into the incident, AFP reported.
The Russian Embassy in Denmark final week rejected claims of Moscow’s involvement within the incidents.
Chatting with Russian media in feedback launched Sunday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated that any try by NATO to shoot down Russian or Belarusian plane can be met with an “immediate response.”
“Let them try, let them shoot. Or they’ll shoot down something Russian over Kaliningrad. Then, of course, we’ll have to fight, as they say in Russia, with all we’ve got. Is that necessary? No,” he stated, asking whether or not NATO would shoot down his helicopter when flying near the Polish border.
The discharge of Lukashenko’s feedback got here after Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov instructed the U.N. Normal Meeting on Saturday that his nation doesn’t intend to assault Europe, however will mount a “decisive response” to any aggression.
“I think people will very much regret if they commit the most flagrant violation of our territorial integrity and territorial sovereignty,” Lavrov stated, together with “attempts to shoot down … any object in general over our territory, in our airspace.”
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