Denmark sends Ukraine €150M for energy as Zelensky lands in Copenhagen

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said Tuesday that Copenhagen will send Ukraine another €150 million in assistance, directing the funds toward the country's energy sector. He made the announcement during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Copenhagen, framing the timing around the war's mounting toll on civilians.

Rasmussen pointed to the scale of Ukraine's power crisis as the reason for the energy focus. ''People are already freezing in Ukraine. There are power outages on a scale we have not seen since the war began,'' he said. He added that Denmark wanted to use the day to show its actions ''can be counted on.''

Zelensky is scheduled to address the Danish parliament, the Folketinget, on Wednesday. Before he gets there, Morten Messerschmidt of the Danish People's Party objected to the Ukrainian president using the podium, arguing that more significant historical figures never did so in the past.