Denmark’s Aalborg airport was closed for hours due to drones in its airspace, local police said early on Thursday, two days after the country’s main Copenhagen airport was shut over drone sightings that rattled European aviation.
The drone sightings began shortly before 10pm on Wednesday and ended just before 1am on Thursday. The Danish defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, said: ‘There can be no doubt that everything points to this being the work of a professional actor when we are talking about such a systematic operation in so many locations at virtually the same time. This is what I would define as a hybrid attack using different types of drones.’
The drone flights follow similar incursions in Poland and Romania and the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets, which have raised tensions in light of Russia’s continuing invasion of Ukraine
‘Professional actor’ behind attacks that closed Danish airports, defence minister says
