Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has also acknowledged the situation is very difficult given tensions with the US just as winter is “fast approaching.”
“We must continue to support Ukraine . Otherwise we are making things far too easy for the Russians,” she said.
She warned that Ukraine is running out of funds as “fighting a war is expensive,” adding that in many cases the country cannot produce the equipment it needs, particularly for air defence.
“As a result, you can see that the Russians are striking Ukrainian society much, much harder than they were not that long ago,” she said.
Frederiksen stressed that the EU must ensure there is sufficient funding in place for 2027.
She also pushed back against any suggestions on closer relations with Moscow , warning that Russia continues to “seek to seize parts of Europe” and “wages war against Europe every single day, directly in Ukraine and through a hybrid war against the rest of us.”
“If Russia wanted peace, they could simply stop the war,” she said.
She also dismissed media reports that some European leaders had asked Zelenskyy to tone down his criticism of Donald Trump . “I haven’t heard any European leaders say that,” she said.