The Danish government said on Sunday it had summoned Russia’s ambassador after a Russian spy plane violated its airspace.
The plane entered Danish airspace on Friday evening east of the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm before flying into Swedish airspace, the government said.
Swedish defence officials announced the violation on Saturday.
“The Russian ambassador is summoned to the foreign ministry tomorrow,” Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod tweeted on Sunday, referring to a “new Russian violation of Danish airspace”.
Kofod added it was “totally unacceptable and particularly worrying in the current situation”, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising tensions with NATO, of which Denmark is a member.
Henrik Mortensen, a Danish Defence Command press officer, told AFP on Sunday about the incident.
“It was a reconnaissance plane that was in our airspace for a very brief moment. Two Danish F-16 immediately intervened,” Mortensen said, adding that such incidents are rare.
JustALilDepressed on May 1st, 2022 at 19:51 UTC »
Danish person here, this happens all the time, they give them 2 warnings and if not they get shot down, the russians know that, i guess you could say they are just provoking us
PrometheusIsFree on May 1st, 2022 at 17:09 UTC »
Russia was happy to shoot down an aircraft that the pilot knew was a Korean 747 full of innocent people. No one should lose any sleep shooting down any Russian military aircraft that violates their sovereign territory and airspace. Turkey showed everyone how to deal with these incursions.
SimonArgead on May 1st, 2022 at 16:31 UTC »
Now, if Denmark shot the plane down as Turkey did... what would happen then...?