Overview
- Irish police said a special investigations unit is probing unidentified drones detected inside the temporary airspace restriction during the Ukrainian president’s arrival on December 1.
- Officials reported four or five large, military‑style drones were positioned on the scheduled trajectory at the expected time, though Zelensky’s aircraft landed a few minutes early without incident.
- Prime Minister Micheál Martin said he will convene the National Security Council by month’s end to review the incident and declined to speculate on possible foreign involvement.
- The drones were first spotted by the crew of the Irish naval vessel LÉ William Butler Yeats, which was later overflown as a U.S. Air Force C295 maritime patrol aircraft monitored the flights without intervening.
- Media reports cite flights lasting nearly two hours with a possible launch near Howth, but no debris or launch site has been found and no evidence supports any attribution, despite broader European concerns about hybrid tactics.