Copenhagen airport shut after sighting of ‘unidentified drones’

At slightest 15 flights person been diverted arsenic the airdrome remains closed until the concern is resolved, officials successful Denmark say.

Authorities successful Denmark person closed Copenhagen airdrome aft unidentified drones were sighted nearby, causing astir 15 flights to beryllium diverted, constabulary and airdrome officials told the AFP quality agency.

“The airspace implicit Copenhagen airdrome has been closed since 8:30pm (18:30 GMT) owed to 2 to 3 unidentified drones. No craft tin instrumentality disconnected oregon land,” airdrome spokeswoman Lise Agerley Kurstein said.

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She said astir 15 flights had been diverted to different airports.

Copenhagen police, meanwhile, said that “three oregon 4 large drones” had been observed flying implicit the airport.

“They are inactive flying backmost and forth, coming and going,” work serviceman Anette Ostenfeldt told the AFP astatine 10:45pm (20:45 GMT), adding that constabulary were astatine the airdrome investigating.

She could not accidental if the drones were subject oregon civilian.

“But they are bigger than what you arsenic a backstage idiosyncratic tin buy,” Ostenfeldt said.

Police officers locomotion aft each postulation has been closed astatine the Copenhagen Airport owed to drone reports successful Copenhagen om September 22, 2025. [Ritzau Scanpix/Steven Knap via Reuters]

Airport officials said the airdrome would stay closed until the concern was resolved. “We presently person nary timeline for reopening,” Kurstein, the airdrome spokeswoman, said.

The incidental comes arsenic respective European countries person reported violations of their airspace by Russia. Estonia said connected Friday that 3 Russian MiG-31 combatant jets had entered Estonian airspace without permission.

During a Russian aerial onslaught connected Ukraine the week before, Poland said astir 19 drones flew into its airspace. The Polish Air Force and NATO allies changeable down immoderate of the unmanned vehicles, marking the archetypal clip Russian drones were downed implicit NATO territory since Moscow’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful 2022.

Romania besides registered a Russian drone successful its airspace.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) convened connected Monday to code the contented of airspace violations.

Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, denied the allegations that Moscow’s combatant jets had violated the airspace of neighbouring Estonia, saying that past Friday’s formation of 3 of its MiG-31 craft was done “strictly successful accordance with planetary airspace regulations”.

The Russian Ministry of Defence echoed his remarks, saying that “objective monitoring” confirmed that the MiGs did not breach Estonian borders.

NATO allies astatine the UNSC gathering condemned Russia for violating the alliance’s airspace.

“Your reckless actions hazard nonstop equipped confrontation betwixt NATO and Russia. Our confederation is defensive, but beryllium nether nary illusion we basal acceptable to support NATO’s skies and NATO’s territory,” the United Kingdom overseas secretary, Yvette Cooper, said.

NATO’s North Atlantic Council volition conscionable to sermon the contented connected Tuesday.