Zelenskyy meeting European leaders in Denmark to rally support for Ukraine

Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen says that Europe is successful a hybrid warfare waged by Russia, and Ukraine is archetypal enactment of defence.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is gathering with astir 50 European leaders successful the Danish capital, Copenhagen, to unafraid much enactment for the warfare arsenic the United States turns disconnected the fiscal taps.

Zelenskyy volition beryllium appealing to the European Political Community connected Thursday for much enactment successful its warfare against Russia, 1 time aft European Union leaders discussed proposals to usage frozen Russian assets to money a caller 140 billion-euro ($164bn) indebtedness for Kyiv.

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His renewed entreaty comes arsenic Europe, which is connected precocious alert aft a bid of provocative incursions from Russia, comes nether much unit to backmost Ukraine arsenic the United States turns its absorption connected information concerns successful Asia and elsewhere.

Thursday’s gathering comes conscionable days aft drone incidents astatine airports and subject bases successful the country. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said connected Thursday that Europe was successful a hybrid warfare being waged by Russia, and Ukraine was the continent’s archetypal enactment of defence.

Danish constabulary person not yet identified those liable for the drone incidents successful Denmark, but Frederiksen likened them to different attacks, specified arsenic a caller usurpation of Polish airspace and said that Europe should beryllium capable to support itself wholly by 2030.

On Wednesday, leaders discussed however to hole Europe to fend disconnected Russian aggression by 2030. Intelligence services judge that Russia could equine an battle elsewhere successful Europe successful 3 to 5 years, and that President Vladimir Putin is intent connected investigating NATO.

Security astatine the acme is highly tight, with a peculiar radar strategy acceptable up astatine Copenhagen airdrome to assistance support watch.

Hungary blocking EU bid

The Ukrainian president urged the EU to “keep its promises” to Ukraine connected its bid to articulation the bloc connected his mode to code immoderate 50 heads of authorities and authorities and EU leaders converging successful the Danish capital.

Europe has to support its promises – conscionable arsenic campaigner countries bash their part. Thank you, and we are counting connected results.

I said this portion addressing the participants of the European Council meeting.

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 1, 2025

Officials successful Brussels and Kyiv accidental Ukraine has carried retired the indispensable ineligible legwork to marque much advancement connected EU accession, but Budapest is refusing to budge.

On Thursday, Hungarian person Viktor Orban said helium would “stand firmly” connected his absorption to Ukraine joining the bloc.

“It would mean, first, that warfare would travel into the European Union. Second, wealth from the European Union would spell to Ukraine,” Orban said successful Copenhagen connected Wednesday.

Another country wherever the Hungarian person is proving an outlier successful the EU is its efforts to extremity purchases of lipid and state from Russia.

Trump has demanded that NATO allies halt purchasing fossil fuels from Moscow earlier helium volition determination up with sanctions to unit the Kremlin to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.

Hungary, on with neighbouring Slovakia, is 1 of the fewer EU countries to inactive import lipid from Russia via a pipeline.

Orban, 1 of Trump’s strongest backers successful the EU, insisted that landlocked Hungary can’t halt buying lipid from Russia – but that statement is not going down well.

“Those who take ties with Russia alternatively of America are going against some Europe and the US,” Zelenskyy told EU leaders by videolink connected Wednesday.

“We genuinely anticipation that guys from Hungary volition perceive to these shared signals from each of us.”