In the city of Brøndby on the evening of September 30, an unidentified drone caused the local airport to temporarily suspend operations.
According to public broadcaster NRK, the first signal about the appearance of the drone was received by the police at 08:17 pm. At around 09:50 pm, employees of the control tower near the airport noticed it and called the police.
The police arrived at the scene and began a search for the operator. "We observed the drone in the air, but we were unable to find any pilot... After a long search, we have completed the operation," said Morten Sørensen, a spokesman for the Nordland police.
According to Avinor, the company that manages Norway's airports, the last flight was able to land before the incident. After that, the airport was closed for the night, and its operations were planned to resume on the morning of October 1.
This is not the first such incident in Brøndby. On September 28, drones appeared in a prohibited area, which caused one flight to be redirected. Earlier, authorities tightened rules on drone flights near four airports in the region after several sightings near a military base. Drones were also spotted over a gas field in the North Sea.
Against the backdrop of these incidents, NATO announced increased patrols in the Baltic Sea.
On the night of September 10, russian drones violated Polish airspace during russia's attack on Ukraine. This was the first time that Polish aircraft had shot down drones over its territory.
On September 13, russian drones once again penetrated Romanian territory. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, one of the drones flew almost 10 km into the airspace of a NATO country and remained there for about 50 minutes. Wreckage of the drones was also found on the beaches of Bulgaria and Latvia.
On September 19, three russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered Estonian airspace over the Gulf of Finland without permission and remained there for 12 minutes.
On September 23, Denmark's main airport in Copenhagen was temporarily closed for four hours due to drones. Police did not shoot down any of the drones. The country called the incident the most serious attack on critical infrastructure and linked it to a series of russian drone incursions in Europe. That same evening, drones were spotted over Norway's main airport.
Meanwhile, a drone was spotted over an Equinor platform in the North Sea in Norway.
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