Assistance to the Ukrainian army is not limited to armored vehicles and anti-tank systems, the soldiers are reinforced with artillery, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers. The number of transferred equipment has exceeded 4 thousand. Among other things, 14 Su-25 attack aircraft from Bulgaria were bought for Ukraine.
From January to November 2022, Western partners transferred more than 4,000 weapons to Kyiv, including aircraft, tanks and artillery. About it informs Bloomberg.
Almost all types of weapons were transferred to the Ukrainian army, except for long-range missiles of the ATACMS type. The largest donors, until November 2022, are:
- United States – $18 billion;
- Germany – $4.1 billion;
- UK – $3.5 billion;
- Poland – $2.3 billion;
- Canada – $1.2 billion
What was handed over to Ukraine?
tanks
Now the West is considering transferring its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, and the UK has already announced plans to transfer 14 Challenger 2. Before that, Western countries transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine 410 Soviet-era tanks from Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
BMP
The total number of BMPs transferred is about 300, of which 250 are different versions of Soviet vehicles. Also will be supplied:
The vehicles are designed to transfer fighters to the battlefield, as well as to fight against enemy armored vehicles, including tanks.
armored personnel carrier
In total, the Ukrainian army received 1,100 armored personnel carriers from around the world, of which 300 are M113s, and 250 are M1117s. Also, more than 160 M113s were transferred from other countries, including the UK, Lithuania, Portugal and others.
MRAP machines
Explosion-proof MRAPs were also transferred to Ukraine from the US, Australia and the UK. In total, about 925 vehicles were received, of which:
- 440 MaxxPro
- 90 Bushmaster and a certain number of British Mastiffs and Wolfhounds
Armored cars
The Ukrainian army received more than 1,540 armored vehicles, of which 1,250 are American HMMWVs (Humvees).
Artillery
- 210 – 155-mm howitzers M777
- 72 – 105-mm howitzers L118
- more than 400 self-propelled guns, of which 180 are under production or transfer
- more than 20 155-mm self-propelled guns from the UK
- 18 self-propelled guns from Poland, Germany and the USA
In total, more than 300 howitzers and 400 self-propelled guns.
MLRS
In total, the West transferred 95 units of multiple launch rocket systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- 38 HIMARS (part is in production)
- more than 40 MLRS Vampire and “Grad”
The publication notes that it was HIMARS that had a great influence on the course of the war. Ukraine received weapons to destroy ammunition depots, command posts and enemy concentration areas.
Air defense means
- 37 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns
- 8 NASAMS SAM batteries
- 2 Patriot air defense systems
- 6 SAM Strela-10M from the Czech Republic
- 6 Stormer HVM air defense systems
- deliveries of other air defense systems from a number of countries
The list includes both delivered samples and those that will be delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Aviation
- 14 Su-25 attack aircraft purchased from Bulgaria by NATO countries
- 4 attack aircraft Su-25 from North Macedonia
- 20 Mi-17 helicopters from the USA
- 11 Soviet helicopters from Slovakia, Latvia and the Czech Republic
- 3 British Sea Kings helicopters
- more than 30 Bayraktar TB2 strike UAVs
- hundreds of Switchblade kamikaze drones
- 415 reconnaissance drones
At the end, the authors summarize that the list did not include all weapons, since some of them are not transferred publicly.
Recall, on January 16, the media wrote that fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived in the USA to master the Patriot air defense system.