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Drones spotted near Aalborg, Billund, Esbjerg, Sonderborg and Skrydstrup airports

Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.

The dataset records drones near the airports of Aalborg, Billund, Esbjerg, Sonderborg and Skrydstrup on the night of 24 September 2025. It codes the incident as disruption, apparent goal disrupt (civil) aviation, target military / weapons production infrastructure; civil aviation, location Denmark; the dataset dates it to September 2025 and its text gives the day. The Leiden dataset includes incidents linked to Russia by officials, incidents fitting a pattern of officially suspected attacks, or incidents backed by journalistic evidence, and its authors call the data speculative and subject to change.

When
24 September 2025
Where
Denmark, Denmark (military events are placed no finer than town or district, except known fixed sites)
What
airspace violation · military
Acting party
Government of Russia
Attribution
Attributed by independent sources. Listed as a Russian operation in the Leiden University Russian Operations Against Europe dataset; the dataset links the incident to Russia, citing a source this draft could not open (see gaps).
In the record
Published 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC · revision 1 · leiden

Sources

  1. Evidence Leiden University, Russian Operations Against Europe dataset Academic · Unaffiliated origin: Leiden dataset entry 131 · published 2026-01-13 00:00 UTC

History

WhenFieldFromToWhy
2026-10-27 21:03 UTCstatusnullreportedP1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule

Cite or reuse

The War Record, "Drones spotted near Aalborg, Billund, Esbjerg, Sonderborg and Skrydstrup airports", ev-20261027-6sza, revision 1, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-6sza/

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