Danish PM says Ukraine seems successful in defending itself
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FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen speaks during a press conference at the Nordic Prime Ministers' Summer Meeting at the Paimio Sanatorium in Paimio, Finland May 26, 2025. Lehtikuva/Roni Rekomaa via REUTERS/File Photo
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Ukraine's attack against several Russian air bases on Sunday shows that Kyiv is successful in defending itself, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday.
"I think they (Ukraine) have the right to defend themselves and sometimes it includes pushing back so it seems that it has been successful," Frederiksen said when asked to comment on Ukraine's attack.
Ukraine's domestic intelligence service, the SBU, acknowledged it carried out the attack, codenamed "Operation Spider's Web," planned for more than a year and a half.
At a meeting of Nordic, Baltic and Eastern European leaders in the capital of Lithuania, Frederiksen on Monday also said it was crucial to focus on rearming Europe.
"Russia is a threat to all of us and therefore we need to strengthen our Eastern flank... We have to push for a ceasefire still but at the same time we have to do what is needed at the battlefield in Ukraine so they can actually win this war," she said.
(Reporting by Andrius Sytas and Stine Jacobsen, writing by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
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