The West is struggling to give Ukraine the weapons it needs — but there may be a solution

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The West is struggling to give Ukraine the weapons it needs — but there may be a solution

Western allies are adopting the “Danish model” to fund Ukraine’s arms industry.

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Lithuania have all provided money in this way.

Those in favor say that it will help make Ukraine self-sufficient in the long term.

Ukraine’s ********* allies, hampered by

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have been struggling to produce the weapons needed for Kyiv to ****** against Russia.

An increasing number are now financing Ukrainian government contracts with Ukrainian weapons manufacturers to make up the shortfall, according to

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The move has been termed the “Danish Model” after

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began giving Ukraine aid to boost its defense manufacturing capacity earlier this year.

Those in favor of the model say that Ukraine is able to create weapons better suited to its needs at a lower cost than Western countries, the Journal reported.

Ukraine already has a strong weapons manufacturing industry. An Institute for the Study of War

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said Ukraine’s defense industry employed 300,000 workers within about 500 different companies in 2023.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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that the country’s defense companies can now produce 4 million drones annually.

By contrast, Russian President Vladimir ****** said earlier this year that Moscow intended to

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tenfold to around 1.4 million a year.

“Ukraine was the heart of the ******* defense industrial base, so they have a lot of know-how when it comes to manufacturing complex systems,” Eric Ciaramella, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment’s Russia and Eurasia Program, told the Journal.

He added that supporting Ukraine’s defense industry lets the West help ensure Ukraine is self-sufficient.

Last week, Denmark made a new donation of $138 million for the development of Ukraine’s arms industry, according to

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provided money in this way, and other nations could soon follow, according to the Journal.

Zelenskyy has

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with delays in military aid from Ukraine’s Western allies, on whom is dependent for advanced weapons like

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“Every decision to which we, then later everyone together, comes to is late by around one year,” he told Reuters in May.

As

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, the West has focused on the quality of military equipment over stockpiles, prioritizing high-tech and specialized gear over volume.

However, the Ukraine war has shown that both are needed. That has prompted a

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said earlier this month that Biden “has committed to making sure that every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed out the door” before Trump’s inauguration on January 20.

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