In recent weeks, Poland flew over, Estonia complained about an intrusion of Russian combat planes and Denmark, Germany and Belgium denounced the sighting of numerous aerial vehicles unidentified not beed. Some European officials have described these actions as a test by Moscow to NATO response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose government has blamed Moscow for the sightings of drones on German military and industrial sites, promised “all necessary measures to guarantee effective deterrence against these violations of airspace and other attacks by the Russian army, “according to the media .
“We suspect that Russia is behind most of these drone flying,” Merz said directly in an interview with the German radio station Ard. Thus, he indicated that The threat comes from “those who want to test” Germany And he stressed that these events suppose “a serious threat to the security” of the country.
The German Foreign Minister also stressed that, although in the past there have been drones, the “mass” of the incidents of the last days It is not precedentsalthough he said that “no incident or operation has been documented that involved armed drones.” Therefore, he has spoken of “espionage attempts” or “attempts to nerve the population.”
Last Saturday the German police confirmed the arrest of an individual under suspicion of flying an unmanned plane near the Frankfurt airport, in the middle of a national alert on these devices and the suspensions of operations in Munich, whose airport resumed activities on Saturday after several suspensions during the previous days.
After these incidents, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, He has urged the armed forces to participate in the fight against drones and plans to present a draft of a new Air Safety Law soon. “We are in a race between the threat of drones and the defense against them,” he said.
