The Danish Prime Minister calls for a strong response from EU leaders to Russia’s hybrid attacks

EU leaders meet in Copenhagen under pressure to strengthen European defense after a series of Russian invasions into the EU airspace and days after drones are directed at Danish airports.

Danish Prime Minister Met Fredericksen told reporters that “from a European point of view there is only one country … Wishing to threaten us and this is Russia, so we need a very strong answer.”

The invades have become the most axis for the EU Eastern flank countries like Poland and Estonia.

A number of Member States have already supported plans for a multi-layer “drone wall” for rapid detection, then tracking and destroying Russian drones.

Denmark intensified security for the summit, DISCUSSION OF ALL Flights of Civilian Drones By Friday and putting severe restrictions on trafficking in Copenhagen.

Denmark also hosts a broader meeting at the summit of the European political community on Thursday, and international allies have support to ensure that both events pass without incidents.

Copenhagen’s airport, followed by several Danish airports and military sites on the Jutland Peninsula, faced the drone interruption last week.

Ten allies provide support to fight drone and observation, according to Denmark to the military who emphasized “Increased presence of foreign troops and equipment”S Among the countries that contribute are Poland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United States. German frigate also touches Copenhagen.

As a host of dozens of European leaders for two days, Denmark will want to repel more surprises in her airspace.

Danish police have not found any evidence This Russia is lagging behind last week’s drone, but Fredericks explicitly links it to other hybrid attacks such as the invasion of Russia’s drone over Poland.

It was part of a model that was to be viewed from a European point of view, she told reporters on Wednesday.

“The war in Ukraine is very serious. When I look at Europe today, I think we are in the most difficult and dangerous situation since the end of World War II – no longer the Cold War.”

Sweden has released her neighbor’s “powerful radar systems” for the week, and Volodimir Zelenski to Ukraine said that Kiev is sending a mission to Denmark for joint exercises to provide “Ukrainian experience in drone defense”.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said before the summit meeting that the invasion of the airspace is deteriorating and worse and it is “reasonable to assume that drones come from Russia.”

Drones have been observed in recent days Above the northern state of Germany, Shleshvig-Holstein and flights are delayed last week at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania and Oslo Airport in Norway due to drone activities.

“We are not at war, but we are no longer in peace. We have to do much more for our own security,” Merz told a media event in Dusseldorf this week.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was obvious that Germany had long been “indirectly involved” in the war in Ukraine and he rejected the “unfounded accusations” for Russian involvement in the interruption of last week in Denmark.

“Europe would be better to seek a dialogue on security issues, not to seek to build a resolution” wall of a drone, “he said on Tuesday.

Such is the concern for Russian activity on the Eastern flank in Europe, which NATO met for consultation twice in September under Article 4 of its contract, first afterwards Drones disrupt Polish airspace And then when Russian Mig-31 military aircraft entered the airspace of Estonian airspace in 12 minutes.

“We have to keep our sky safe,” said NATO Secretary General Mark Rute, who met with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on the eve of the Copenhagen summit.

The idea of ​​a drone wall was raised a month ago by von der Leyen, and Rute said it was “timely and necessary, because in the end we cannot spend millions of euros or dollars on rockets to remove drones that cost only a few thousand dollars.”

EU senior diplomat told the BBC that there are still questions about financing plan and over command and control, but Europe’s answer to the drone violations in Russia in Poland have led to a serious demand for the soul: “We need to be more alarm and find better instruments.”

A former brigadier general at the Danish military Ole Quarna told the BBC that the drone wall is a “political, very generic concept at the moment”, but this drone activity last week was a call to wake up for the authorities and the wider Danish population.

He warned that the purpose of the next attack may be different.

“This can be an infrastructure such as energy supply,” said the Danish Defense Robotics and Autonomy Center. “The nature of the hybrid war is that it aims to surprise us. So we have not ended with operational shocks like this.”

Another leading project called Eastern Flank Watch is aimed at strengthening the eastern borders of the EU by sea, air and land to protect itself from the so -called hybrid war, as well as from the fleet of Russia’s shadows. Von der Leyen said the EU would have to cooperate with NATO and Ukraine.

EU leaders will be shown plans for a “roadmap” aimed at strengthening the protection and development of European defense industries by the end of the decade to produce the state-of-the-art military equipment. NATO plans will then be processed before EU leaders meet again this month.

According to plans for “Readiness for 2030”, Europe must move now so that its capabilities are prepared for the “battlefields of tomorrow”.

One of the main ideas is to focus on joint orders. The EU has already supported proposals to raise up to € 150 billion (€ 130 billion) in capital markets to help financing defense investment. The UK and Canada are likely to participate in the fund.

EU financial support for Ukraine will also be discussed, more than three and a half years in the full -scale war of Russia.

Ukraine is also a candidate to join the EU, but is facing the hardening of the opposition from Hungary and tensions at their common border after Kiev accused Budapest of sending intelligence drones to Western Ukraine.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is one of Russia’s closest allies in the EU, said Ukraine is not a “sovereign country” as it is funded by the West.