Overview

• Aalborg shut late Thursday into early Friday after a new suspected sighting, following a multi‑hour closure, with drones also reported over Esbjerg, Sønderborg, Skrydstrup air base and briefly Billund.
• Officials described a systematic operation by a professional actor and framed the flights as hybrid attacks, while noting no direct military threat to Denmark.
• Denmark’s military intelligence said attribution remains unknown, the domestic intelligence chief warned the risk of Russian sabotage is high, and the prime minister called Russia Europe’s primary security threat.
• The Russian embassy in Copenhagen denied any role and dismissed suggestions of involvement as a staged provocation.
• Authorities did not shoot down the drones for safety reasons, Denmark is acquiring counter‑drone detection and neutralisation tools, it has briefed NATO about possible state activity, and it will join EU talks today on a regional anti‑drone “wall.”