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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that a spate of drone-related disruptions across Europe should serve as a warning of what war could look like on the continent, according to Reuters on October 6.
Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said it remains unclear who is responsible for the incidents but dismissed suggestions that pro-Russian actors were involved.
“People who sympathise with our country [in Europe] will not waste their resources by coming out of hiding. Our ‘agents and moles’ are waiting for a separate order,” he wrote on his official Telegram channel.
The remarks followed multiple disruptions to civil aviation in recent days, including at Munich Airport on October 4 and at Denmark’s Aalborg and Copenhagen airports in late September, where police and air traffic authorities cited drone sightings in restricted airspace.
German authorities said operations in Munich were gradually resumed after delays affected thousands of passengers, while Denmark reported two closures within the same week amid broader security concerns.
“The main thing is that short-sighted Europeans feel the danger of war on their own skin. That they fear and tremble like dumb animals in a herd being driven to slaughter,” he wrote, according to Reuters.
He accused French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz of inflaming tensions “for political and financial reasons.”
European leaders have linked the latest airspace incidents to Russia. Merz said on Sunday that Berlin assumes Russia was behind recent incursions and emphasized that the drones appeared unarmed and reconnaissance-focused.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, while urging stronger counter-drone defenses, warned against falling into what he called “Putin’s escalation trap.” The Kremlin rejected the accusations on Monday, saying there are “no grounds” to blame Russia.
Reuters reported that Medvedev’s broader message was that the disruption had given European citizens “a taste” of wartime conditions. He wrote that he hoped the public reaction would turn against leaders in Paris and Berlin, consistent with his increasingly hardline rhetoric on his Telegram channel.
Earlier, it was reported that Germany deployed a laser-based counter-drone system to protect Munich Airport amid a surge of disruptive drone incursions.
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