Danish police snipers on Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen during a meeting of EU leaders on Wednesday. Photograph: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
The behind-the-scenes preparations for the meeting of European leaders in Copenhagen would have made a fitting episode of the Danish political drama Borgen, which follows the struggles of fictional prime minister Birgitte Nyborg.
Mysterious drones appeared and shut down the capital airport, then other airports, causing huge disruption. More drones were spotted near military sites in the week before Denmark was to host back-to-back high-level summits, something that is a major logistical undertaking in isolation.
Russia was blamed as the likely culprit, though investigating authorities have not publicly said they h
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