Overview
- Skeyes said a drone was reported over Liège around 06:30 GMT, prompting a shutdown of roughly 30 minutes before flights resumed.
- Liège recorded multiple interruptions from late Thursday into Friday morning, while Brussels faced diversions and cancellations earlier in the week after drone reports.
- The government convened emergency security talks, and Defense Minister Theo Francken characterized the incursions as a coordinated attack without naming a perpetrator.
- Germany has deployed an advance team of counter-drone specialists to Belgium and is forming rapid response units equipped to detect, take over, net, or ram hostile drones, according to officials.
- Sightings are under investigation near sensitive sites including Kleine-Brogel airbase, the Doel and SCK Mol nuclear facilities, and Antwerp’s port, with some European officials calling the pattern hybrid warfare and Russia denying involvement.