{"id":151117,"date":"2026-08-23T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/151117\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:32:08","slug":"denmarks-prime-minister-calls-for-more-patriot-systems-to-be-provided-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/151117\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark&#8217;s Prime Minister calls for more Patriot systems to be provided to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support for Ukraine, risks to civilians<\/p>\n<p>The Danish prime minister emphasized that Western countries have the weapons needed to defend Ukrainian skies, although Denmark itself does not have such systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have Patriot systems around us. Denmark as a country cannot do this, but Ukraine can certainly be given more support when it comes to air defense,&#8221; Mette Frederiksen said.<\/p>\n<p>She stressed that delays in delivering air defense systems will have severe consequences for civilians during the winter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we don&#8217;t do this, Ukraine will face a winter in which the Russians will destroy everything around them, bomb the country, including with ballistic missiles, and kill many people,&#8221; the prime minister warned.<\/p>\n<p>US role in Patriots supply<\/p>\n<p>According to Frederiksen, although European countries are now taking on a greater share of the burden of supporting Ukraine, they still need US involvement.<\/p>\n<p>This is partly because the United States holds the license to manufacture missiles for Patriot systems.<\/p>\n<p>New air defense decisions<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, Ukraine continues systematic talks with international partners to significantly strengthen its air defense and protection against ballistic threats.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, Ukraine is working <a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/zelenskyy-reveals-new-air-defense-solutions-1787481122.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to secure additional French SAMP\/T systems and implement the FREYJA project<\/a>. Work is also underway on a special agreement with Germany to secure the delivery of PAC-2 missiles for Patriot systems.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside purchases and assistance from partners, Ukraine is actively expanding its own development and production of ballistic weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/the-world-has-patriot-missiles-zelenskyy-1785615190.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized that Patriot missiles are available worldwide<\/a>. The president urged allies to make the necessary political decision to transfer them to Ukraine rather than keep scarce ammunition in storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support for Ukraine, risks to civilians The Danish prime minister emphasized that Western countries have the weapons needed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[16828,27,26,1112,35998,4201,238,241,546,4583],"class_list":["post-151117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-air-defense","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-missiles","tag-patriot","tag-prime-minister","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117146730346880925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}