The commander of the Danish army General Dyw. Peter Harling Boysen announced sending his soldiers to Ukraine for training by Ukrainians with modern techniques to fight utilizing drones.
‘During my last visit to Ukraine, I asked if we could come to respective courses to learn firsthand, now specified an chance has emerged.”
said Harling Boysen TV2.
According to the head of the Danish army, training of the first groups could begin this summer. The plan assumes that trained drone operators in Ukraine will supply their colleagues in their units in Denmark.
‘We truly request to have the latest versions of different types of drones, and erstwhile there comes a request to go to war, so that we can take them with us.”
He said. He recalled that in Ukraine assault drones are highly effective, they are liable for over 70% of the deaths on the Russian side.
‘On the 1 hand, we must be able to usage drones against the enemy, but we must besides be able to defend ourselves against them.”
“ Harling Boysen noted.
However, the commander of the army reserved that the Danish soldiers would go to Ukraine unarmed, and I would besides be far from the front. They may be staying in centres in the west of Ukraine, in the region of Lviv.
At the same time, Harling Boysen opposed the submission of a one-time large order to equip the Danish army with unmanned aircraft, including "because of the technology that is constantly developing".
Denmark's defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen in late March in Odense, confederate Denmark opened a military drone improvement centre, employing 100 soldiers and civilian workers.
So far, Denmark has trained Ukrainian military pilots in its country, including F-16 fighter aircraft pilots, which the government in Copenhagen handed over to Ukraine.
In a conversation with Ritzau agency, Flemming Splidsboel Hansen from the Danish Institute of global Studies gave a affirmative opinion on the function played in Danish-Ukrainian cooperation. It recalls that Ukraine already has a catalogue of over 70 different types of unmanned aircraft.
‘Investments in drones pay off, we see that large and costly weapons systems can easy be disabled by them," she notes.
The expert's thought of sending Danish soldiers to Ukraine called the “releasing” of the Danish public, for example, with the next step, perhaps, the presence of Danish troops in the Ukrainian territory.
According to Splidsboel Hansen, the alternate to training in Ukraine could be to organize a training camp in east Poland with the participation of the Danish and Ukrainian troops.
PAP/ Fleets
