Denmark said Thursday that drone flights over multiple airports this week were a "hybrid attack" designed to create fear, adding it would acquire new capabilities to detect and intercept drones.

Police said drones flew over several airports across the country and caused one of them to close for hours, after a similar incident early this week prompted Copenhagen airport to shut down.

"The aim of this type of hybrid attack is to spread fear, create division and frighten us," Denmark's Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said.

He added that Copenhagen would acquire new enhanced capabilities to "detect" and to "neutralise drones".

The drone flights follow similar incidents in Poland and Romania and the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets, which have raised tensions in lig

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