EU leaders are meeting in Copenhagen under pressure to boost European defence after a series of Russian incursions into EU airspace, and days after drones targeted Danish airports.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told reporters that "from a European perspective there is only one country... willing to threaten us and that is Russia, and therefore we need a very strong answer back".
The incursions have become most acute for countries on the EU's eastern flank such as Poland and Estonia.
A number of member states have already backed plans for a multi-layered "drone wall" to quickly detect, then track and destroy Russian drones.
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he did not rule out downing a Russian fighter jet if it were to breach European airspace.
ReplyDeleteGerman daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview asked the French president if he was “in favor of shooting down a Russian fighter jet if it enters European airspace without authorization.”
“In accordance with the doctrine of strategic ambiguity, I can tell you that nothing is ruled out,” Macron replied.