ANOTHER major Danish airport was forced to shut down after mystery drones buzzed its airspace.
It comes just days after Copenhagen was plunged into chaos amid claims Moscow is behind the sabotage.
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Denmark’s Aalborg airport was closed on Wednesday after drones were spotted
Aalborg Airport was closed indefinitely on Wednesday evening after drones were spotted circling above, police confirmed.
Martin Svendsen, sales and marketing director at the airport, said: “It is correct that the airspace is closed because drones have been observed.
“I can confirm that the police are present.”
North Jutland Police posted on X: “Drones have been observed near Aalborg Airport and the airspace is closed.
“The police are present and investigating further.”
At least three flights were diverted — two back to Copenhagen and one from Amsterdam rerouted to Billund — after the sudden lockdown.
It is not yet known how many drones there are or where they came from.
Aalborg sits in northern Denmark’s Jutland region and ranks as the country’s fourth-biggest city by population.
It comes just 48 hours after Copenhagen Airport, the busiest hub in the Nordic region, was shut down for four hours when two or three unidentified drones swooped dangerously close to the runways.
Just days ago, footage showed a drone flying close to the Copenhagen airport
ReutersPolice officers stand guard after all traffic was closed at Copenhagen airport[/caption]
The eerie pattern has sparked fears of a Russian hand behind the incursions.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed the mystery drones that grounded flights in Copenhagen — and later Oslo — were part of “Russia’s violations of the airspace of NATO member states.”
He warned: “If there is no resolute response from the allies – both states and institutions – to aggressive provocations, Russia will continue them.”
While Danish police have not confirmed any link, they have warned the aircraft appear to be controlled by a “capable actor.”
Jes Jespersen, senior police inspector of the Copenhagen Police, said earlier this week: “It all indicates that you are not out to attack anyone, but you are out to show off and maybe to practice.”
Denmark’s intelligence agency has already declared the country faces a “high threat of sabotage.”
Over the weekend, airports across Europe — including Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin — were also hammered by crippling cyberattacks, fuelling fears of a coordinated hybrid assault.
Security expert Anthony Glees told The Sun: “Without doubt, the Russians are behind these attacks on airports in London, Berlin and Brussels.
“No one can doubt that Putin’s strategic planners are the beneficiaries here because they have been able to demonstrate they can attack our cyberspace with impunity and at will.”
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ReutersCops patrol Copenhagen airport which was closed for four hours earlier this week[/caption]
ReutersTravellers wait at Brussels airport after a cyberattack disrupted operations over the weekend[/caption]
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