Denmark will invest some 58 billion kroner ($9.1 billion) in European-made air and missile defence systems, its defence ministry said Friday, citing lessons from Russia's war in Ukraine.

Rearmament has become a government priority under Social Democrat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"The current security policy situation means that ground-based air defence is an absolute top priority in the development of the armed forces," Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said in a statement.

"Experience from Ukraine shows that ground-based air defence plays a crucial role in protecting the civilian population, among others, against Russian air attacks," the minister added.

The ministry said the French-Italian SAMP/T system would be procured to cover

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