Denmark signs a ten-year bilateral security agreement with Ukraine

Denmark has signed A bilateral agreement from Security from ten years with Ukrainethe Danish government announced on Thursday after the Signing of contracts Similar from Kyiv with Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

“The agreement means that future military and civilian support over the next ten years will be set out in a bilateral political agreement” and will be financed from the Danish Fund for Ukraine, which is currently worth 69.1 billion crowns (just over 10 billion US dollars). -dollars), he explained The Foreign Ministry in a statement.

In addition to this agreement, Denmark announced new immediate military assistance equivalent to $247 million, according to a Defense Ministry statement. In addition to this agreement, Denmark announced new immediate military assistance equivalent to $247 million, according to a Defense Ministry statement.

This new package includes the delivery of 15,000 artillery shells to Ukraine “within a few months” in cooperation with the Czech Republic, at a time when Kiev is suffering from a severe shortage of ammunition compared to Russia.

“I am proud that Denmark is one of the countries that most supports Ukraine,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a news conference.

“These commitments form a bridge for Ukraine’s future accession to the EU and NATO,” the government added in its statement.

The delivery of the first F-16 fighter jets to Kiev, promised last year, will take place in the summer “if preparations go according to the planned schedule,” Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen was quoted as saying in a statement. AFP