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Denmark says Russian ship fired flares at copter

By AMELIA NIERENBERG The New York Times

DenmarkrCOs foreign minister announced Tuesday that he had summoned
RussiarCOs ambassador after DenmarkrCOs military said a Russian frigate
fired two flares at a Danish air force helicopter the previous day. One
flare passed close to the helicopter, the Danish military said in a
statement.

The incident came as tensions between Russia and NATO countries in
Europe were running high over a string of airspace incursions by Russian
jets and drones, as well as sabotage plots and attacks that European
officials have blamed Russia for.

European leaders have accused Russia of trying to provoke and
destabilize countries supporting Ukraine as the war there grinds toward another bloody winter, more than four years after RussiarCOs full-scale invasion.

The military said in its statement that the flares flew as a Danish air
force helicopter was conducting rCLroutine photographic coverage of a
Russian frigaterCY in international waters off the coast of southern Denmark.

rCLThis is completely unacceptable,rCY Lars Lokke Rasmussen, DenmarkrCOs foreign minister, said in a statement that the Foreign Ministry released
on social media.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark called the move rCLreckless actionrCY by Russia.

rCLRussian actions are meant to intimidate and divide,rCY she said in a statement her office shared on social media. rCLThey will not succeed. We
will not waver.rCY

Vladimir Barbin, the Russian ambassador to Denmark, said in a statement
that Russia would rCLthoroughly investigate all the circumstances of the incidentrCY even as he accused the Danish military of regularly carrying
out rCLdangerous maneuversrCY near Russian warships.

The incident came a day after a Russian strike on a Ukrainian train
station near the Polish border where David Petraeus, the former CIA
director, was traveling on a train. Another train had just left the
station with former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other
European politicians and diplomats on board.

Countries neighboring Russia and Ukraine have also been plagued in
recent months by drone incursions as the war in Ukraine spills over
their borders.

On Tuesday, President Gitanas Nauseda of Lithuania said that NATO
fighter jets had destroyed a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace
overnight. He thanked allies for their response.

rCLWith Russia intensifying its aggression against Ukraine, such readiness
is vital for our region,rCY he said on social media, although he did not
say what country the drone belonged to.

On Monday, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the Polish defense minister, said
on social media that the Polish military had recovered a drone from the
Baltic Sea and that early indications suggested that it had come from
Russia.
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