{"id":81479,"date":"2026-08-30T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/81479\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:18:39","slug":"baltic-sea-nations-plan-drone-defence-task-force-germany-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/81479\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltic Sea Nations Plan Drone Defence Task Force, Germany Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLENSBURG, Germany, Aug 28 (Reuters) &#8211; The \u2060countries \u2060bordering the Baltic Sea \u2060plan to establish a joint task force \u200bfor drone defence that will allow them to react \u200cquickly in the face of \u200cthe growing threat of hybrid attacks, said \u2060German Interior \u2060Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous incidents of possible sabotage \u200baffecting undersea cables and critical gas pipelines have taken place in the Baltic Sea, bordered by eight NATO countries \u200band Russia, since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in \u2060Ukraine in \u20602022.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is \u2060to \u200bset up a task force that allows quick information exchange, said \u200bDobrindt ahead \u2060of a meeting in the northern German city of Flensburg with his Baltic Sea counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foreign powers attempt daily to attack and undermine democracy, security and economic strength \u2060within the EU,&#8221; said the interior minister in a statement \u2060on the meeting&#8217;s objective.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that such attacks could &#8220;take on a new dimension in the coming months&#8221; and the hybrid threat is &#8220;omnipresent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany has been particularly on alert over drone threats after one carrying explosives was found at Leipzig\/Halle Airport &#8211; an important military logistics hub &#8211; earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>German officials \u2060have not publicly blamed any foreign countries for the incident, though some lawmakers have pointed their finger at Russia, which has dismissed the incident as &#8220;fabricated \u200bprovocation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Markus Wacket, writing by Miranda \u200bMurray, editing by Thomas Seythal)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See: August 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/august-28-pyss-s03.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - School students hold LED candles as they gather to pay their homage to people who died in Nepal's flash flood, in Chennai on August 28, 2026. (Photo by R. Satish BABU \/ AFP via Getty Images)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLENSBURG, Germany, Aug 28 (Reuters) &#8211; The \u2060countries \u2060bordering the Baltic Sea \u2060plan to establish a joint task&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[982,1446,3381,151,5127,5,6374,3380,671,4416,1831,1489,774,46],"class_list":["post-81479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-collections-world","tag-denmark","tag-estonia","tag-europe","tag-finland","tag-germany","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-poland","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-sweden","tag-ukraine","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}