Why are we writing about this?
Air traffic at Denmark's largest airport in Copenhagen was closed due to unidentified drones. The police are on the scene. Planes were rerouted to Malmö, Billund, Aarhus and Gothenburg, reported on Monday around 21 a.m. on the Danish DR portal. After midnight, it was reported that the airport had resumed operations, but there were serious difficulties.
What did the Danish police say?
On Tuesday, the Copenhagen police took the floor. It believes that drones may have been steered from ships that flow close Copenhagen. At a press conference, elder Police Inspector Jens Jespersen said the ships were in the Øresund Strait or the Baltic Sea, reports Berlingske portal. “I can’t regulation out that that’s the point. Not whether they came from 1 or respective ships from Øresund or the Baltic Sea. This is part of our consideration," said the Danish officer.
He added that on Monday "on the Baltic Sea and the Øresund Straits ships sailed to and from Russia". However, he emphasizes that it was not something special, as it happens almost all day.
According to TV2 TV, a Russian freighter Astrol-1 was passing through the Sund Strait hours before the drones appeared. A ship bound for St. Petersburg from Archangelsk on the White Sea.
Quoted by Berlingske, an expert on unmanned Kjeld Jensen from the University of South Denmark estimated that drones could have taken off from a freighter Astrol-1 or another ship in the Baltic Sea. In Jensen’s view, it may be possible that they were sunk in the sea to cover their tracks after the task was done.
In turn, the paper “Ekstra Bladet” drew attention to the Benin-flagged and sanctioned transport of Russian oil tanker Pushpa. The tanker on Monday evening was located southeast of the island of Zealand, where it was escorted by a German coast defender ship.
The 3rd lead leads to the Norwegian freighter Oslo Carrier 3, which at the time of the airport's closure was respective kilometres north of Kastrup Airport. The shipowner confirmed TV2 that the crew included, among others, Russian sailors, denied that there were drones on the ship.
How did the Polish expert comment?
This information was commented by a erstwhile typical of the Polish government for the safety of the Information Space of the Republic of Poland, and an advisor to the president of Poland from 2024 to 2025.
“Services are working on explaining the nature of the event — the Russian script seems likely. An crucial subject is given by the media, a Russian ship passing close Copenhagen. Polish services should besides be curious in this. If Russia uses ships as floating bases for drone attacks, it is essential to strengthen operations in the Baltic immediately, to control and defender all Russian ship and ship, and to increase monitoring of the sub-marine infrastructure," wrote Stanisław Żaryn.
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