Vladimir Putin is being blamed for a series of drone incursions that shut down airports in two NATO capital cities and led to massive disruptions to flight traffic.

Air traffic controllers in Copenhagen shut down arrivals and departures for a space of roughly four hours late Monday night, affecting more than 20,000 passengers after three drones were spotted nearby. Flights were also halted in and out of Oslo, with tens of thousands affected.

The disruptions come hot on the heels of Russian violations of two other NATO member countries’ airspace over the past two weeks. Estonia has described the entry of three Russian fighter jets on Friday as “unprecedentedly brazen,” while Poland, where NATO forces shot down at least 20 Russian drones earlier, has warned “this situation brings us the

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