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The 51-year-old Russian man was arrested on the morning of October 14 while flying a drone over Tromsø city airport in northern Norway.
The man was arrested along with a large amount of photographic equipment, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and memory cards. While examining the seized equipment, police found pictures of the airport in Kirkenes, a small Norwegian town close to the Russian border, as well as pictures of a Norwegian military helicopter.
An area inside Tromso Airport in northern Norway. picture: Barents Observer.
The man, whose identity has not been released, faces charges of operating a drone in Norway, police said. In February, shortly after Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine, Norway’s Civil Aviation Authority banned Russians from flying or operating aircraft, including drones, in the country. The law prohibits aircraft registered and operated in Russia from landing, taking off or overflying Norway.
According to police, the arrested man does not live in Norway. He entered the country on October 13 via the city of Stoskog on the country’s north coast near Russia and was on his way to the Arctic Ocean archipelago of Svalbard.
The incident comes amid heightened security concerns in Norway over the past week. Last week, another Russian man was arrested after customs officials found two drones in luggage at the Storskog border crossing. The person told the court he had been in Norway since August and had flown drones across the country.
Last week, there were reports of drone sightings at sensitive sites such as a gas plant near the city of Stavanger in the southwest of the country.
Last month, Norway’s oil safety regulator urged companies to be more vigilant about drones flying near offshore oil rigs, warning they were at risk of accidents or “attacks.” “Intentionally advertised”. Earlier, Norwegian state oil company Equinor said it had alerted authorities to the sighting of drones near some of its facilities.
Norway is emerging as the center of Europe’s energy safety net following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, leading to a reduction in the region’s oil and gas imports from Moscow. Norway is now the main gas supplier to the European Union (EU).
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