{"id":55668,"date":"2025-11-10T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-k-sends-anti-drone-troops-to-belgium-as-airports-shut-down-amid-warnings-of-russian-hybrid-warfare\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:38:10","slug":"u-k-sends-anti-drone-troops-to-belgium-as-airports-shut-down-amid-warnings-of-russian-hybrid-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-k-sends-anti-drone-troops-to-belgium-as-airports-shut-down-amid-warnings-of-russian-hybrid-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. sends anti-drone troops to Belgium as airports shut down amid warnings of Russian &#8220;hybrid warfare&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>London<\/em> \u2014 Britain is sending anti-drone equipment and personnel to Belgium after a spate of sightings near airports and military bases, the head of the U.K. military said Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>While Belgium and the U.K. have not accused anyone of flying the unidentified drones, they&#8217;re the latest in a growing trend of airspace violations by mysterious aircraft in about half of a dozen European nations, including around NATO military bases, that at least one U.S. ally calls part of escalating Russian &#8220;hybrid warfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In the past week Belgium&#8217;s main international airport in Brussels and one of Europe&#8217;s biggest cargo airports, near the Belgian city of Liege, were forced to close temporarily because of drone incursions. Before that, authorities reported a series of unidentified <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/drones-near-belgium-air-base-storing-us-nuclear-weapons-spy-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">drone flights near a military base in Belgium<\/a><\/span> where U.S. nuclear weapons are stored.<\/p>\n<p>Air Chief Marshal Richard Knighton, the head of Britain&#8217;s armed forces, said over the weekend that the U.K. had agreed to &#8220;deploy our people, our equipment to Belgium to help them,&#8221; after a request from Belgian authorities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/10\/87ae9efa-9fd6-46ed-8cf3-a1a2943d1c78\/thumbnail\/620x413\/2bb219aa0811cf281528011c85519b7e\/belgium-brussels-airport-drones.jpg#\" alt=\"BELGIUM-TRANSPORT-AVIATION-TRAVEL \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/10\/87ae9efa-9fd6-46ed-8cf3-a1a2943d1c78\/thumbnail\/620x413\/2bb219aa0811cf281528011c85519b7e\/belgium-brussels-airport-drones.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/10\/87ae9efa-9fd6-46ed-8cf3-a1a2943d1c78\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/73e89cca7e7c9b624de5236e05a43390\/belgium-brussels-airport-drones.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A sign reading &#8220;No drone zone&#8221; is seen as an aircraft lands at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, Nov. 5, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                NICOLAS TUCAT\/AFP\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know \u2014 and the Belgians don&#8217;t yet know \u2014 the source of those drones, but we will help them by providing our kit and capability, which has already started to deploy to help Belgium,&#8221; Knighton told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p> U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey said the U.K. was sending a team of Royal Air Force specialists to NATO ally Belgium &#8220;to counter rogue drone activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As hybrid threats grow, our strength lies in our alliances and our collective resolve to defend, deter and protect our critical infrastructure and airspace,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Drones plague European airports amid rising tension with Russia<\/h2>\n<p>Drone incidents across Europe have forced airports to suspend flights many times in recent months. While Belgium has not said who it believes is operating the drones, Russia has been blamed in some cases by other NATO allies. <\/p>\n<p>Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken said that he believed that some incidents were part of &#8220;a spying operation&#8221; that could not have been done by amateurs.<\/p>\n<p> Belgium is home to the headquarters of NATO and the European Union, as well as Europe&#8217;s biggest financial clearinghouse holding tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets. Many EU countries want to use those assets as collateral to provide loans to Ukraine, but Belgium has so far resisted.<\/p>\n<p>The most overt blame has been cast by Lithuania, a NATO member that <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lithuania-belarus-russia-nato-hybrid-warfare-balloons-shut-down-vilnius-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">accused Russia and its close ally Belarus<\/a><\/span> at the end of October of escalating a hybrid war against Ukraine&#8217;s partners two-and-a-half years into <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ukraine-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Moscow&#8217;s full-scale invasion<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania&#8217;s Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BudrysKestutis\/status\/1982735113348677985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in an Oct. 27<\/a>\u00a0social media post that the U.S.-led NATO alliance was facing a &#8220;deliberate escalation of hybrid warfare from Russia and its proxy, Belarus,&#8221; calling the spate of recent airspace incursions, &#8220;calculated provocations designed to destabilize, distract and test NATO&#8217;s resolve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He called for further sanctions against Belarus and stronger NATO security measures to deter the airspace violations, as Lithuania&#8217;s prime minister warned that any further unidentified balloons entering the country&#8217;s airspace from Belarus would be shot down.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/27\/0018f7a6-8d7b-4ba6-82ef-1a72cb63c2a3\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/373ab2e6304d36621bebe7d280708c77\/lithuania-belarus-balloon-ap25278675830317.jpg#\" alt=\"Lithuania Airport Balloons \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/27\/0018f7a6-8d7b-4ba6-82ef-1a72cb63c2a3\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/373ab2e6304d36621bebe7d280708c77\/lithuania-belarus-balloon-ap25278675830317.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/27\/0018f7a6-8d7b-4ba6-82ef-1a72cb63c2a3\/thumbnail\/1240x826g8\/b3aa6da03e27a79c085f8ac31c327e9e\/lithuania-belarus-balloon-ap25278675830317.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In this undated photo released by the State Border Guard Service of Lithuania, an officer inspects a balloon used to carry cigarettes into the country by suspected Belarussian smugglers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                State Border Guard Service via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many of America&#8217;s European allies have had their airspace breached in recent weeks, mostly by unclaimed drones flying around\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/munich-drones-europe-belgium-military-base-russia-threat-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">airports and military facilities in Germany, Denmark and the Baltic states<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 23, a Russian Sukhoi SU-30 fighter and an IL-78 tanker plane flew just under half of a mile into Lithuanian territory, according to the country&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urm.lt\/en\/news\/928\/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-issues-strong-protest-to-russia-over-airspace-violation:45102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ministry of foreign affairs<\/a>, after departing from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. The Baltic Sea coastal territory is separate from the rest of Russia, and bordered on two sides by Lithuania and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Estonia <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russians-violated-estonian-airspace-12-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">accused Russian fighter jets<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of flying through its airspace for 12 minutes in mid-September. 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