Ukraine makes weapons “fastest and cheaper” than the rest of Europe: the Danish Prime Minister

• Prime Minister in Denmark said that Ukraine could make weapons “faster and cheaper” than anywhere in Europe.
• “We have a problem, friends, if any country in the war can produce faster than our rest.”
• Europe’s defensive spending has increased in recent years, but problems remain.

Prime Minister in Denmark said that Ukraine is able to produce weapons “faster and cheaper” than anywhere else in Europe despite being in the war, which it said should take off the West.

Speaking on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, attended by the Danish Prime Minister, Danish Prime Minister Metty Friedrixen warned that Europe should increase production efforts and work with the United States to do so.

“We have a problem, friends, if a country in the war can produce faster than our rest,” she said. “I do not say that we are in wartime, but we cannot say that we are at the time of peace anymore. Therefore, we need to change our mindset.”

Friedrixen added that Europe needs a “urgency” and must reduce legislation and bureaucracy to ensure that Ukraine gets “what they need, but also to ensure our ability to protect ourselves.”

Since Russia has launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraine has increased the production of local weapons, increasing the numbers of homemade products such as missiles, the Handser of the Havezer, and drones.

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski previously said that 30 % of the military equipment used by Ukraine in 2024 was locally.

Denmark has led a major project to make more weapons in Ukraine, giving Friedrixen an insight into production efforts in Ukraine.

While Friedrixen did not refer to specific personalities, the defense industry in Ukraine flourished, corresponding to, or even Europe’s superiority in some areas.

The wide -ranging use of drones in the battlefield witnessed that Ukraine is a pioneer in the production of drones, as Kiev said that the country produced more than 1.5 million aircraft of the first vision in 2024.

Ukraine also said it had made 2.5 million artillery and artillery shells from January to November 2024, while the European Union said it would make about 2 million artillery shells in 2025.

Europe has increased significantly from defense spending and production in recent years, but some officials say that there is a great extent.

“Europe needs to raise our defensive spending very quickly and greatly to be able to stand equally with the United States,” said Lithuanian Defense Minister, Lithuanian Defense Minister, at Business Insider in Munich.

Boris Pisorius, Germany’s Minister of Defense, faced the case during the weekend, saying: “Critics are right that we have to do more and that we have done very little in previous years, very few.”

Mark Root, NATO Secretary -General, also called for European members in the coalition to increase military spending.

Speaking in Munich, he said that the United States is “right to” think “we have to escalate, and we have to spend more.”

He added that both the United States and Europe “do not produce almost enough” and that Russia produces more ammunition in three months more than NATO in one year.

But Vice President JD Vance, who also appeared in Munich, seemed unlikely to the pledges of Europe, and used his speech to attack what he called violations of freedom of expression in Europe. Vans said it was “great” that Europe was planning to increase the defense spending, but it was more concerned about the threat of Europe than “inside” instead of Russia.

For his part, Trump has long called on Europe to spend more on defense, threatened to leave NATO if this did not happen, and even suggested before his re -election that he would allow Russia to attack NATO members who are not sufficient to defense.

Some countries have already taken great steps towards strengthening spending. In 2024, Poland led the alliance in defense spending as a percentage of GDP, as Warsaw has invested more than 4 % of her economic production in defense.

Lithuania and Estonia also pledged to increase their defensive spending to 5 % of GDP, saying that while they agreed on Trump’s demands, they did not take this step only because of the president but because of Russia’s threat.

But the future of the US coalition and Europen appears at a risk more than just a defensive spending. In recent days, the Trump team suggested that Europe be marginalized in negotiations between Russia and the United States in Ukraine and that it was “unrealistic” that Ukraine restore all the lands occupied by Russia.

Despite the high tensions, many leaders in Munich said there are still opportunities to continue working with the United States to combat Moscow.

“It is easy to become very negative” about the relationship of the United States and the Urub and described the situation as “uncomfortable” because the sovereignty of Ukraine is at stake. But “this does not mean that relations with the United States should be bad.”

Šakalienė added that although Trump had “unique” negotiating tactics, this was not necessarily a negative thing like “playing with rules does not work with Russia.”

As many other European officials said during the weekend, the United States also needs Europe and its capabilities as an ally.