Ukrainian military drone. Illustration picture.
Danish soldiers will hold a series of trainings in Ukraine with modern techniques of combat utilizing drones, said Major General Peter Harling Boysen on Wednesday. Cooperation with Ukrainians is to begin this summer. The Danes are to be located far from the front.
– During my last visit to Ukraine, I asked if we could come for a fewer courses to learn firsthand, now specified an chance appeared," said Danish government TV2 station General Peter Harling Boysen.
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According to the plan, upon completion of the courses, the Danish military will pass on the acquired skills to colleagues from the country.
Ukraine. The Danes are coming to training. They'll be far from the front.
Peter Harling Boysen stressed the request to have the latest drone models so that in the event of a war they could be utilized and reminded that on the Ukrainian front above 70 percent of Russian losses are caused by this kind of weapon. However, soldiers will be far from the front and will go to Ukraine unarmed. It is possible that they will be deployed in the region of Lviv.
However, the general argued against crucial orders of fresh equipment besides "because of the technology that is constantly developing".
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At the end of March, a drone improvement centre was opened in Odense, where 100 military and civilians found employment. The beginning ceremony was attended by defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen.
A fresh model of cooperation. "Investment in drones pays off"
So far, Ukrainians have been going to a Scandinavian country to take part in training on aircraft, among others. F-16 Handed over to Kiev by the government in Copenhagen.
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Flemming Splidsboel Hansen of the Danish Institute for global Studies in an interview with Ritzau Agency positively assessed the fresh expression for bilateral cooperation and recalled that Ukraine already has a rich arsenal of over 70 unmanned aircraft. – Investing in drones pays off, we see that large and costly weapons systems can be easy immobilized by them – said the expert and did not regulation out that the next step could be the presence of soldiers from his country over the Dnieprem.
Splidsboel Hansen pointed to organizing training camp in east Poland as an alternate to training in Ukraine.
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