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Germany’s Munich airdrome halted flights aft respective drone sightings, a constabulary spokesperson told AFP aboriginal connected Friday (October 3, 2025), the latest successful a drawstring of akin aviation disruptions crossed Europe.
Airports successful Denmark, Norway and Poland person precocious suspended flights implicit unidentified drones, portion Romania and Estonia person pointed the digit astatine Russia, which has brushed disconnected the allegations.
Nearly 3,000 passengers were grounded arsenic 17 departing flights were cancelled connected Thursday (October 2, 2025) nighttime by Munich airport, which added successful a connection that 15 arriving flights were diverted to different cities, including Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Vienna and Frankfurt.
“Camp beds were acceptable up, and blankets, drinks, and snacks were provided” to affected passengers successful Munich, the connection added.
It did not specify erstwhile flights volition resume.
Several radical spotted drones astir the airdrome astatine astir 1930 GMT Thursday, and again an hr later, starring to the closure of some runways for an hour, a constabulary spokesperson told AFP.
German authorities person launched a hunt to place the root of the drones.
Police helicopters were deployed but “no accusation is disposable connected the benignant and fig of drones,” the spokesperson said.
The incidental comes up of the last play of Germany’s Oktoberfest, which draws hundreds of thousands of radical each time to Munich.
The yearly festival had already closed for fractional a time connected Wednesday aft a weaponry scare.
‘Drone wall’
The drone sightings successful Denmark and high-profile aerial incursions by Moscow successful Estonia and Poland person heightened fears that Russia’s battle connected Ukraine could spill implicit Europe’s borders.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Europe connected Thursday that the caller drone incursions showed Moscow was looking to “escalate” its aggression.
Germany is connected precocious alert, saying a swarm of them had flown implicit the state past week, including implicit subject and concern sites.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Berlin needed to “find caller responses to this hybrid threat” -- including perchance shooting down the drones.
Denmark besides raised the alarm, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen reiterating past week that lone 1 state “poses a menace to Europe’s information -- and that’s Russia”.
Moscow said it “firmly rejects” immoderate proposition of involvement, with Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing Europe of stoking “hysteria” to warrant rising subject spending.
EU heads of authorities met successful Copenhagen this week to sermon bolstering the bloc’s defences with the constitution of a “drone wall”.
Denmark accepted a Swedish connection of Stockholm’s anti-drone exertion to guarantee the gathering could proceed without disruption.
Meanwhile, the United States is sending anti-drone defences to Denmark, Copenhagen’s defence ministry said.
NATO has said it has “enhanced vigilance” successful the Baltic pursuing the airspace intrusions.
