London – The flights to the drones again caused interruptions in the Danish airports on Wednesday night, authorities said, in the last instance of inexplicable drone sightings on sensitive facilities in the Scandinavian nation.
Danish officials held a press conference on Thursday morning detailing the last incidents, which caused the complete closure of the Aalborg airport, which is also used by the Danish Armed Forces, at the north end of the Zealand Island of Denmark.
“Drones have been observed near Aalborg airport and the airspace has been closed,” said Danish National Police in a statement on Wednesday night. “The police are present and investigating more thoroughly.”
Danish justice, Peter Hummelgaard, said in a press conference on Thursday that drones were also reported on the cities of southern Esbjerg and Sonderborg, as well as on the Skrydstrup air base of combat wing, which is home to Danish F-16 combat aircraft.
“The objective of this type of hybrid attack is to create fear,” said Hummelgaard. “It is creating discord and is getting scared.”
A light moves in the sky on Aalborg, in the middle of reports of drone sightings that took to the city airport in Aalborg, Denmark, on September 24, 2025, on this screen taken from the video of social networks.
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The Danish government plans “to acquire new abilities for detection” and present a bill that “provides greater opportunities for infrastructure owners to demolish drones,” Hummelgaard added.
The latest reports occurred after Copenhagen airport was forced to close for several hours on Monday night, just like the Oslo airport in southern Norway. Both capitals sit along the Skagerrak and Kattegat Strait, home of the busy shipping lanes that connect the North Sea with the Baltic Sea.
The origin or purpose of drone flights is not yet clear. But Danish defense minister Troels Lund Poulen said Thursday’s press conference: “There is no doubt that everything points out that this is the work of a professional actor when we talk about such a systematic operation in so many places practically at the same time.”
“This is what I would define as a hybrid attack using different types of drones,” Poulen said, adding that Copenhagen has options to respond through NATO, even triggering article 4 of the Alliance, which requires a formal consultation with the allies.
“We have no evidence to make the direct link with Russia,” Poulen added.
Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said Tuesday that he considered the initial intrusions of Drones on Copenhagen and elsewhere to be “a serious attack against critical infrastructure in Denmark.”
When asked if Russia, the drones of which the NATO airspace have repeatedly violated in recent months, should be considered responsible, Frederiksen said: “I cannot reject in any way that it can be Russia.”
The Kremlin dismissed the statement on Tuesday. “A country that takes a serious position should probably not make accusations such unfounded again and again,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The Danish police chief superintendent, Jens Jespersen, told journalists on Tuesday that the authorities were investigating several theories about the origin of the drones, including that they may have been thrown from nearby ships.
People walk outside the Aalborg airport in Denmark, on September 25, 2025.
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Danish authorities identified three tankers with links to Russia: Astrol 1, Pushpa and Oslo Carrier 3, as possible launch points, Reuters reported.
Of the three, only Pushpa was close to Aalborg on Wednesday night when the last drone flyers were reported.
Until Thursday morning, the open -source maritime monitoring websites showed the Pushpa sailing to the southwest through the North Sea to the Channel of La Mancha, with its eventual destination listed as Vadinar in India.
The “war sanctions” website of the Ukrainian government lists the Pushpa as part of the so -called “shadow fleet” of Russia of Petrolers, ships that often do not have insurance and with an unclear property that Moscow uses to evade international sanctions.
The Pusha also uses the name of Boracay and sails under the flag of Benin, according to the Ukrainian government.
Morgan Winsor of Abc News and Will Gretsky contributed to this report.
