{"id":25172,"date":"2025-04-16T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25172\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:15:09","slug":"russia-warns-danish-army-of-consequences-if-they-send-troops-to-ukraine-for-drone-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25172\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns Danish army of &#8216;consequences&#8217; if they send troops to Ukraine for drone training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COPENHAGEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia has sharply criticized the Danish Armed Forces&#8217; proposal to send soldiers to Ukraine for drone training, calling it &#8220;a provocative act of military support,&#8221; state news media outlet DR reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exchange of combat experience is not a humanitarian action,&#8221; Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin was quoted by state media as saying, accusing Denmark of misrepresenting military engagement as harmless training.<\/p>\n<p>He warned of &#8220;unpredictable consequences,&#8221; suggesting such actions could risk a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sending Danish soldiers to Ukraine to learn how to kill Russians with drones is a deliberate provocation,&#8221; Barbin told the state media outlet.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement to TV 2, the Russian ambassador further cautioned that Denmark would be endangering its troops. &#8220;Military facilities\u2014including training centers and personnel\u2014are legitimate targets for the Russian Armed Forces,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Denmark&#8217;s response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In response, Major General Boysen, head of the Danish Army, emphasized that any participating soldiers would be unarmed and stationed far from the front lines.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that no final decision or concrete plans have been made regarding the training initiative.<\/p>\n<p>During the army&#8217;s latest experience gathering earlier this year, Ukrainians offered Danish soldiers the opportunity to participate in short-term courses and training in Ukraine, as well as the possibility of sending specialists to Denmark, said Major General Peter Harling Boysen in a statement to the DR.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, meanwhile, has not issued his reaction on the statements made by the Russian ambassador or the possibility of sending Danish soldiers on a course in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN Russia has sharply criticized the Danish Armed Forces&#8217; proposal to send soldiers to Ukraine for drone training,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[5340,365,332,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-25172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114348538196702546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}