{"id":4248,"date":"2026-02-08T02:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/4248\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T02:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:51:20","slug":"sweden-and-denmark-to-jointly-buy-air-defence-systems-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/4248\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden and Denmark to jointly buy air defence systems for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">STOCKHOLM, Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Sweden and Denmark will jointly procure and supply Ukraine \u200bwith air defence systems worth 2.6 \u200cbillion Swedish crowns ($290 million) to help it ward off \u200cRussian attacks, the countries&#8217; defence ministers said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Sweden will fund 2.1 billion crowns of the purchase of Tridon air defence \u2060systems, developed by \u200cBAE Systems Bofors, the Swedish arm of the defence material group, \u200dwhile Denmark will contribute about 500 million crowns, Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;This means that \u200bUkraine can develop an air defence battalion \u200cif they so wish,&#8221; he told a joint press conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, with his Danish counterpart Troels Lund Poulsen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;The purchase doesn&#8217;t just support Ukraine on the battlefield \u2060with more material, but \u200balso strengthens our production \u200bcapacity in Sweden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Sweden and Denmark have for years been some of the staunchest \u200dbackers of \u2060Ukraine, supplying military and humanitarian support since the early days of Russia&#8217;s invasion \u2060of its neighbour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">($1 = 8.9564 Swedish crowns)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Niklas \u200cPollard in Stockholm and Soren Jeppesen, \u200cLouise Rasmussen in Copenhagen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STOCKHOLM, Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Sweden and Denmark will jointly procure and supply Ukraine \u200bwith air defence systems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4160,4164,27,4161,26,4163,132,4162,241],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-air-defence-systems","tag-bae-systems-bofors","tag-danmark","tag-defence-ministers","tag-denmark","tag-gothenburg","tag-sweden","tag-swedish-crowns","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","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=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}