What weapons have been sent to Ukraine in a year of war?
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From tanks to hypersonic missiles, from drones to thermobaric warheads and portable missile launchers, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has just turned one year old, has shown an enormous amount of weapons engaged in the largest conflict it has ever seen. seen Europe since the beginning of the 20th century.
Among the arsenals, also noteworthy are the weapons systems sent by the United States and its allies to the Ukrainian forces.
Russian troops crossed the border on February 24.
They did it with tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, MT-LB troop transports, self-propelled guns, and trucks, as photographs and videos taken in those early days attest.
The tanks of the West will soon arrive on the battlefields in Ukraine.
How do they compare with the Russians?
From the air, Su-34 bombers, among others, and helicopters have operated against Ukrainian forces.
A Ukrainian Army soldier places a US-made Javelin missile into a fighting position on the front line on May 20, 2022 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Russia has also used artillery and missiles to bombard cities and positions in Ukraine.
Recently, Moscow said it had used a hypersonic missile, the first recorded use for this type of advanced weapon, and the use of thermobaric weapons has been reported.
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A destroyed Russian T-72 tank after battles between Ukrainian and Russian forces on a main road near Brovary, north of Kyiv on Thursday, March 10, 2022. See in this gallery some of the weapons used in the war in Russia in Ukraine.
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A Russian self-propelled artillery gun 2S19 Msta.
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A Russian T-72 or T-90 tank advancing in the early days of the invasion, in front of a CNN reporter.
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Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, on the border shortly before the start of the war.
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A Russian TOS-1A Buratino rocket launcher, capable of firing thermobaric warheads, in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian police officers inspect a downed Russian drone in Kyiv, on March 22, 2022. (Credit: SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Drone video shows an attack on Russian tanks.
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A member of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces walks near the wreckage of the downed Russian Sukhoi Su-25 ground-attack aircraft in Kharkiv.
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An unexploded Russian short-range hypersonic ballistic missile, according to Ukrainian authorities, is seen in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, in this distribution image released on March 9.
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A Ukrainian serviceman walks towards the front line in the northern Ukrainian city of Irpin with a 9K38 Igla portable anti-aircraft missile launcher.
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Ukrainian soldier and former member of the Ukrainian Parliament Tetyana Chornovil leads a Ukrainian-made anti-tank guided missile to the front lines near Kyiv.
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A Ukrainian soldier holds an NLAW anti-tank missile launcher (made by the UK and Sweden) that was used to destroy an armored vehicle.
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Employees in Kyiv unload a batch of FGM-148 Javelins, man-portable anti-tank missiles provided by the US to Ukraine.
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A Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank rocket launcher, from Germany, in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers.
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Ukrainian BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles outside Kyiv.
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Ukrainian servicemen drive in T-80 tanks towards the front line against Russian forces in the Lugansk region, Ukraine, on February 25, 2022. (Credit: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian service members fire a shell from an M777 howitzer near a front line, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Donetsk region, Ukraine on June 6, 2022. (Credit: REUTERS/Stringer)
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A HIMARS multiple launch missile system like those sent to Ukraine, during a training mission in Florida on May 10.
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A product image of AeroVironment's Switchblade 600 drone.
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Russia has also used Tochka-U ballistic missiles in the past, a model made in Soviet times that is also found in Ukrainian and separatist arsenals in Donbas.
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Ukraine, independent from the Soviet Union in 1991, operates much of the same or similar weaponry as Russia's, such as T-80 tanks, Su-27 fighter-bombers, BMP-1 and BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, among others.
A HIMARS high mobility artillery rocket system during a training mission in Florida on May 10.
The weapons sent by the United States and its allies
But Ukrainian troops are also armed with Western systems.
The most famous at the beginning of this conflict, due to their effectiveness, were the Javelin anti-tank and Stinger anti-aircraft missile launchers, provided by the United States, the NLAW, manufactured by the United Kingdom and Sweden, and the Panzerfaust 3, from Germany.
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Ukraine also used Bayraktar drones, made by Turkey, and American Switchblades.
In recent times, it has received and used two advanced artillery systems from the United States, including the M777 howitzers and the HIMARS multiple launch missile system.
A Leopard 2 tank, as promised to Ukraine, during a demonstration in Munster, near Hannover, Germany, on September 28, 2011. (Michael Sohn/AP)
France has also supplied its Caesar long-range howitzers, Germany its Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled guns, and the UK its M270 MLRS rocket launchers, which are already being used in the fighting.
The latest promise of Western arms shipments to Ukraine also concerns an old weapons system that is still showing its value: tanks.
After months of back-and-forth negotiations, Germany agreed to send and approve the shipment of its Leopard 1 and 2 tanks, and the United States and the United Kingdom did the same for their Abrams and Challenger 2, respectively.
This has been the war in Ukraine: data and chronology about the Russian invasion, one year later
The huge gap between the armies of Ukraine and Russia
The imbalance between the two armed forces, although they share a lot of material, is notable.
It is enough to take a look at the amount of money the two nations spend on defense to realize the gap.
Ukraine spent $4.7 billion in 2021, just over a tenth of Russia's $45.8 billion, which has nuclear weapons, according to the report "The Military Balance" by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) released last week. pass.
While the Russian government launched a campaign to modernize its military in 2008 after a brief war with Georgia exposed equipment gaps, Ukraine's weaponry remains largely Soviet-era.
Russia also has 900,000 active troops and two million in reserve, while Ukraine has 196,000 and 900,000 reservists.
In ground forces alone, Russia has twice the capacity, with 280,000 troops to Ukraine's 125,600.
And its air force is nearly five times as strong, at 165,000 to Ukraine's 35,000.
But in terms of how many soldiers are in this particular operation, Yohann Michel, a research analyst who worked on the IISS report, said that Russia had an estimated 200,000 troops in and around Ukraine.
As for fighter jets, armored vehicles, missiles, generally speaking Russia has more of everything.
For example, Russia has more than 15,857 armored fighting vehicles, compared to Ukraine's 3,309.
It has more than 10 times as many planes: 1,391 vs. Ukraine's 128, and 821 helicopters vs. Ukraine's 55, if Navy jets are included.
And while Russia has 49 submarines, Ukraine has none, according to the IISS.
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