NATO Orion-26 exercises face security breach as Swedish forces disrupt suspected Russian drone near French flagship Charles de Gaulle docked in Malmö, SVT reports.

NATO Orion-26 exercises face security breach as Swedish forces disrupt suspected Russian drone near French flagship Charles de Gaulle docked in Malmö, SVT reports.

Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The Swedish military intercepted a drone headed toward France's nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier that was docked in Malmo ahead of NATO exercises in the region and the North Atlantic.

The military said that systems on board the Swedish ship, the HMS Rapp, took countermeasures to disrupt the drone.

Sweden's prime minister said it was a serious but not unexpected incident - and a "Russian way of acting that we recognise from other places".

A drone jammed near a French aircraft carrier in Sweden earlier this week was Russian, Sweden's military confirmed on Friday. Sweden's military observed the suspected drone on Wednesday near where a…