Drone sightings halt flights at Brussels, Liege and Gothenburg Landvetter airports
Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.
The dataset records drone sightings that halted air traffic at Brussels Airport, Liege and Gothenburg Landvetter in Sweden, and sightings near a Belgian nuclear research site and Florennes air base. It codes the incident as disruption and reconnaisance, apparent goal disrupt (civil) aviation; unknown, target civil aviation; energy / Communications infrastructure, location Belgium, Sweden; the dataset dates it only to November 2025, so the date shown is the first of the month. 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
- 1 November 2025
- Where
- Belgium, Belgium
- What
- airspace violation
- 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 and the source it cites link the incident to Russia.
- In the record
- Published 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC · revision 1 · leiden
Sources
- Evidence Leiden University, Russian Operations Against Europe dataset
- Evidence NOS
History
| When | Field | From | To | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC | status | null | reported | P1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule |
Cite or reuse
The War Record, "Drone sightings halt flights at Brussels, Liege and Gothenburg Landvetter airports", ev-20261027-sxv4, revision 1, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-sxv4/