More concern over European skies. After Estonia a few days ago, with the invasion of Russian jets and the intervention of Italian F-35 fighters to repel them, this time it was Denmark's turn, a country not bordering Russia like the Baltic countries but much closer to the heart of Europe and especially to its institutions. Copenhagen Airport, above which were several large drones spotted, in fact, is less than a thousand kilometers from the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. A thousand kilometers, to be clear, is more or less the distance between Northern Italy and Sicily, but what is more important and worrying is that it is European territory that is being violated once again.
The news broke in the evening: Lise Agerley Kürstein, press officer at Copenhagen Airport's Kastrup Airport in the Danish capital, announced that the airspace had been closed after at least two or three large drones were spotted in and around the airport, and that a police investigation was underway to identify them. Police Chief Henrik Stormer then confirmed that air traffic at Copenhagen Airport had been disrupted. completely closed around 21pm on Monday and then reopened around 1am. According to Flightradar24, at least 20 flights were diverted to other airports, some to nearby Malmo Airport in Sweden, and another 50 were cancelled.
Almost simultaneously it is The alarm was also raised in Oslo, Norway., closed for approximately three hours, starting at 12:30 a.m. "The airspace has been reopened," Monica Fasting, the airport's communications manager, wrote in an email to the Norwegian news agency NTB. "We ask passengers to report to the airport as normal. The airport," she wrote, "had previously been closed after at least two drones were spotted near the runway. The decision was made for safety reasons." According to NTB, the airport closure affected 12 flights.
Zelensky: “Russian violations”
The Ukrainian president's reaction was swift Volodymyr Zelensky who on X has made it known that he has addressed the topic of "violations by Russia of the airspace of NATO member states, including on September 22 in Copenhagen” with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva. “We exchanged opinions on the reasons,” she writes. “If there is no decisive response from the allies – both states and institutions – to the provocations, Russia will continue to perpetrate such violations.”
During the press conference that concluded a few hours ago in Copenhagen, the police neither confirmed nor denied that the drones were Russian, simply reporting that they were at work.
(Last update at 10.04 on 23 September).
