Involved in drone incidents?
Russian warship apparently hides off the Danish coast
25.09.2025 – 9:59 p.m.Reading time: 3 min.
So far, the Danish government has not commented on who could be behind the latest drone incidents. But now there is a concrete suspicion.
After the drone overfirts over Danish airports, the investigative authorities still have no trace of the perpetrators. So far, the investigators have had no references to those responsible, said the head of the Danish military secret service, Thomas Ahrenkiel, at a press conference on Thursday. Secret service chief Finn Borch also spoke of one “increased danger of Russian sabotage in Denmark”. The incidents resembled “the pattern of the hybrid warfare that we have observed elsewhere in Europe”.
This suspicion is now due to a report by the Danish newspaper “Ekstra Bladet” hardened. According to this, the newspaper has discovered a Russian warship with the help of a helicopter, which has been in international waters for several days with the transponder that has been switched off just a few kilometers off the Danish coast. Accordingly, the “Aleksandr shabalin” Between 70 and 270 kilometers away from all airports and military facilities that have been affected by drone incidents in the past few days.
At the “Aleksandr shabalin” According to the newspaper, it is a ship of the Russian Baltic Sea fleet. The ship should be equipped with rocket launchers, anti -aircraft and automatic cannons and can take up to ten tanks and 340 soldiers on board. During the Syrian Civil War, the ship is said to have regularly brought troops and equipment to the Russian port in Syrian Tartus.
It is unclear why it is off the Danish coast without any position. However, the presence of the ship is known to the Danish armed forces. The government in Copenhagen did not have the report of the “Ekstra Bladet” expressed.
On the night of Thursday, drones were discovered over the Danish airports Aalborg, Esbjerg and Sönderborg as well as over the Air Force base Skrydstrup. Already on the night of Tuesday, flight operations at Copenhagen airport had to be stopped because several large drones had flown over the site for hours.
The local police spoke of several drones of a certain size – the Reich Police already ruled out that it was private models. In the incident in Copenhagen, police page has so far been from one “capable actor” We are talking about perpetrators who have the necessary skills and tools to accomplish such a maneuver – either to create unrest or possibly also to test how long their drones in the air will remain unobserved.
The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen spoke on Thursday after a crisis exchange with NATO general secretary Mark Rutte of one “serious situation”. In Germany, Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) said: “We are not in war, but we are no longer in the complete peace.” In a message from the embassy in Denmark, Russia denied assumptions to be responsible for the use of drone.
