Danish PM calls for Ukraine to be allowed to use provided weapons for strikes against Russia
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen insists that Ukraine's allies must grant the Ukrainian army permission to use the transferred weapons to launch attacks on Russian territory.
“My suggestion is, let us end the discussion about ‘red lines.’ ‘It has been a mistake during this war to have a public discussion about red lines,’ as that is ‘simply giving the Russians too good a card in their hands.’ It would be really good to stop the delays there have been. And I think that the restrictions on the use of weapons should be lifted,” Frederiksen said in her interview with Bloobberg.
She also rejected any suggestion that allowing Ukraine to use weapons provided by Western countries to launch long-range strikes against Russia would mean an escalation that would draw Ukraine's allies into the conflict.
“The most important ‘red line’ has been crossed already. And that was when the Russians entered Ukraine. So, I will not accept this premise, and I will never allow anyone from Russia to decide what is the right thing to do in NATO, in Europe or in Ukraine,” she added.