The Ukrainian president will then travel to Washington for meetings at the White House and on Capitol Hill, where he is expected to reveal more details of his so-called victory plan.
Frederiksen says she’s keen to hear more about Zelenskyy’s plan, noting that “none of us in Europe have asked for war.”
And she cautioned Western allies to be clear-minded about Russia’s intentions, particularly given talk about Ukraine being forced to give up its territory to achieve a peace deal with Moscow.
“Do you really believe that Russia would just say, ‘OK, thank you,’ and then do nothing else? I don’t. We need to push Russia one day to negotiate on peace, but it has to be driven by a wish for Russia to actually have peace,” she said.
Frederiksen, who has been Denmark’s prime minister since 2019, also backed calls for Ukraine to be allowed to use long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia — a key Zelenskyy request at his meeting with Biden this week.
“I don’t think Ukraine will be able to win this war unless we give them something more powerful, which means lifting restrictions and giving them the long-range missiles,” she said. “It has to be according to international law of course, everything has to be that but that is a shift that is needed.”
Denmark has been one of Kyiv’s strongest supporters within the European Union and NATO, sending F16 fighter jets to Ukraine, investing in its defense industry and signing a memorandum of understanding earlier this year.
