A mobilization force of 180.000 troops. That is the ambition behind Denmark’s military build-up 🇩🇰 Men and women with military training would remain available for call-up until the age of 65 - a major shift toward a much larger reserve and mobilization-based defense. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Classified government documents show Denmark is preparing a major expansion of conscription 🇩🇰 More than one in five young men and women could be called up for military service as the country accelerates its military build-up. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

😨 Russian Shahed. Multiple wounded 🇷🇴

According to Swedish media, Sweden is expected to announce on Thursday that it will donate Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine 🇸🇪🇺🇦✈️ www.aftonbladet.se/a/vr3znL

New threat assessment from Denmark: 🐺 During the Armed Forces’ largest military exercise, a wolf reportedly stole a combat boot from a soldier sleeping in a bivouac. Hybrid warfare is evolving in unexpected ways. nyheder.tv2.dk/live/samfund...

Boots polished so obsessively you could read the second hand of a watch in the reflection 🇩🇰💂 Now hazardous chemicals in shoe polish are putting a stop to one of the Royal Danish Guard’s most extreme traditions: mirror-shined boots 👢✨ www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Sweden’s decision to buy French frigates will be studied under a microscope in Copenhagen 🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇰 A rare opportunity for close cooperation has appeared. But will Denmark dare buy the same ships - when some still insist that, in frigates at least, size actually matters? ⚓️ www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Hey, look at this 👀 It’s “Preparedness Week” in Denmark 🇩🇰 and the air raid sirens are being tested. We’re broadcasting six hours of raw, Twitch-style live TV on DR1, DR2, dr.dk and the DR app on your smart TV 📺🚨 Welcome to “The Preparedness Office”

1️⃣ A “very concerning” trend is unfolding in the Danish Navy 🇩🇰 - according to confidential documents. Despite pay raises and recruitment drives, more sailors are leaving than expected. A slow, steady bleed of the frigate crews. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

An offer almost too good to be true just landed on Denmark’s desk - from South Korea 🇰🇷 By the time Europe delivers one frigate, four Korean-built ships could already be combat-ready. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur says the U.S. has paused Estonia's ammunition deliveries until the end of the war in Iran, at least. He said the main issues for Estonia are related to HIMARS ammunition and Javelins. news.err.ee/1610001736/u...

Russian rounds started punching through “bulletproof” vests. Now, 5.000 new armor plates from Denmark are heading to Ukraine to fix the problem - developed in close cooperation with Ukrainian forces. Reporting by @tobiaslethklinge.bsky.social www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

After U.S. pressure, Denmark is quietly deepening military ties with Sweden - even looking at buying Swedish naval guns. 🇩🇰⚓️🇸🇪 www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Since 2023, Maj. Gen. Jette Albinus 🇩🇰 has led one of NATO’s most important commands in the Baltics, at a time of rising tension with Russia. On April 30, the Danish general hands over command of Multinational Division North in Latvia 🇱🇻 www.mil.lv/lv/zinas/not...

1️⃣ In southern Greenland 🇬🇱 lies Narsarsuaq - a community built around its airport. That airport is now facing closure. Tomorrow, it shuts down - effectively delivering a death sentence to the town. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

From Nuuk 🇬🇱: Former prime minister and finance minister Múte B. Egede is replacing Vivian Motzfeldt as foreign affairs minister. He will now be the one facing off with the United States.

I can sort of understand a certain someone’s… ahem… interest in Greenland 🇬🇱 when you crack open a cold beer on a sunny Friday in Nuuk - brewed from meltwater off the ice sheet 🍺❄️

#OTD 26 March 1943 the 🇩🇰Danish corporal Eli Knudsen of the Nordøstgrønlands Slædepatrulje (The Northeastern Greenland Sledge Patrol) was killed in combat at Eskimonæs on 🇬🇱Greenland. The patrol identified German military weather stations to be destroyed by the patrol & US forces

Election parties in Greenland, you say? 🇬🇱 Alright. let’s go. Come along for a tour 👇🧵

Election day in Greenland 🇬🇱. Voters are choosing two representatives for the Danish parliament in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 At Nuuk’s main polling station, Finance Minister Múte B. Egede was seen handing out coffee to voters ☕️ Follow👇for more…

Last year, Greenland’s biggest dog sled race was heavily backed by the U.S. 🇺🇸 - and Usha Vance was expected to attend. Not anymore. This year, the Armed Forces 🇩🇰🇬🇱 are shipping the dogs to the start line themselves 🐕❄️ www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Support for a pressured Danish defense minister ahead of tuesdays election. In a KNR debate, Greenland’s Atassut party stood alone in clearly backing Troels Lund Poulsen as their preferred candidate for Danish prime minister. www.knr.gl/da/nyheder/f...

1️⃣ What a week it’s been. We broke the story that Denmark’s military was preparing for a potential U.S. attack on Greenland. And now, the family has temporarily moved here. We’ll be in Greenland for about a month 🇬🇱

If this footage is real, it’s pretty f***ing chilling. Imagine a drone buzzing around, searching its way into an allied F-35’s Hardened Aircraft Shelter or a soldiers’ bunker. The kill zone is not only limited to Ukraine.

Suspected 🇩🇰 drone sightings created a risk of friendly fire from ground defenses. Danish military aircraft and helicopters avoided flying over certain military areas for a period - but civilian air traffic was not given the same warning. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

I really hope the translate function works out there - because this is a truly disturbing and gripping 🇩🇰 article about life in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

This is what it looks like when someone actually fires at a real drone - and actually hits it. 🎯✈️

I’m watching closely whether any candidates in Denmark’s parliamentary election will argue that Denmark should also take the velvet gloves off against Russia’s shadow fleet - as Sweden has done. www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

In just one week, Sweden has boarded two suspected shadow fleet vessels in the Baltic Sea. “We don’t want ships with poor seaworthiness sailing in Swedish waters,” says Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin til @svtnyheter.bsky.social www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

It’s hardly surprising if people in Europe are pinching themselves and asking: whose side is the U.S. really on? Russia is raking in oil money - while the Ukrainian state is balancing on the edge of bankruptcy.

Russia has announced a missile exercise in the Barents Sea. Experts say it could be interpreted as a response to a Norwegian-led NATO exercise. www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

It seems the velvet gloves are coming off, at least in some cases, when dealing with Russia’s shadow fleet in the Baltic Sea. Here’s one of them 🇸🇪👊

Worth watching whether this affects the presidential bromance between Putin and Trump.

(1/2) At a press briefing on Operation Epic Fury, SecWar Hegseth confirmed that U.S. soldiers were killed when an Iranian missile penetrated and struck a reinforced tactical operations center. www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

Doubts over whether Denmark is truly covered by the U.S. nuclear umbrella are now opening an entirely new debate: Should Denmark seek a role in European nuclear deterrence - or reconsider decades of restrictions on nuclear weapons on Danish soil? www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

1️⃣ Denmark is about to buy new frigates worth billions 💰⚓️ - replacements for these 👇 Naturally, Europe’s major naval shipyards are now on charm offensives in Copenhagen. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 Basically the Champions League semifinals - but with missiles 🚀

An overlooked but notable detail in Denmark’s new economic plan: All proceeds from the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Argentina will be donated to Ukraine. That’s 1.8 billion DKK (€241m / $270m) over four years. #Denmark #F16 #Defense #Argentina

Over 11 years - from 2024 to 2035 - Danish governments will have allocated a total of 717 billion DKK to defence and security 🇩🇰🛡️ Is this the largest compressed investment in a single sector in Danish history? 🤔📊

Four years of war in Ukraine. Four years of unimaginable suffering. Four years of reporting on how all our lives changed - Ukrainians’ most of all. Tonight, we took stock in DR’s TV Avisen late night news 🇩🇰🇺🇦

1️⃣ Denmark is dramatically increasing defense spending in a new economic plan. An additional 250 billion DKK (€33.5bn / $37.5bn) is being added to the current roadmap. 252 billion DKK (€33.8bn / $37.8bn) over the longer term.

Denmark is moving toward a full “total defense” model - where all of society must be ready for crisis. But municipalities warn key questions remain unanswered: Who communicates? Who protects the vulnerable? More in the article by @tobiaslethklinge.bsky.social below. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

“I used to prescribe penicillin to kill bacteria. Now I do something similar to the Russians.” Meet Oleksandr Jabtjanka - former pediatrician, now a battalion commander with the 🇺🇦 DaVinci Wolves, currently in Denmark teaching soldiers the realities of drone warfare. www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

Okay, wow — this clip… 👌😳 Nearly cinematic in its framing… and that delayed “brrr” from the F-16 autocannon. Potentially one of the Danish-donated aircraft 🇩🇰🇺🇦

Denmark has now passed NATO’s 3.5% of GDP benchmark for 2026. The threshold was crossed with a 3 billion DKK (€402m / $450m) donation to 🇺🇦, bringing Denmark’s total 🇺🇦 support this year to 13 billion DKK (€1.74bn / $1.95bn). Imagine if the rest of Europe mirrored Denmark’s level of support.

Not every layer of an integrated air-defense system has to cost billions - or take four years to deliver.

Nearly five years of Trump in the White House have strained Denmark’s ties with its closest ally. A new Epinion poll for DR shows 60% of Danes now see the U.S. as an opponent, while only 17% view it as an ally. 20% are unsure; 3% declined to answer. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Denmark’s defense minister wants to call up more conscripts. Facing challenges in both the short and long term - including a demanding mission in Greenland - he says more young people must be drafted, and fast. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Denmark’s defense minister Troels Lund Poulsen comments after the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen removed 44 flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan. He says the issue now seems resolved and the flags may remain - but calls it “a sad and unfortunate case.” www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Snow is snow - and snow gets cleared. No matter what 😬 The Danish royal couple has arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania 🚨

Farewell to Estonia - a group photo taken by Estonia’s defense minister, Hanno Pevkur, at the CR14 cyber defence range. The 🇩🇰 royal couple now heads on to Lithuania 🇱🇹