War in Ukraine, weapons sent to Kiev from Western countries one year after the start

The arsenal is practically infiniteyet that is not enough: it is impossible to give an exhaustive account of the enormous amount of Western-supplied weapons to Ukraine as of February 24, 2022, when the Russian invasion began a year ago. In terms of quality and quantity, the mass of military vehicles has yielded the Ukrainian army the 15th in the world. Without the aid of at least 30 Western countries, Kiev would have fallen in a few weeks

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As the months went by, they arrived increasingly sophisticated weapons. The first to be used in the field in March were the well-known anti-tank missiles Javelins americans and Nlaw English. They stopped the advance on Kiev, together with Turkish drones Bayraktarwhich struck from the sky

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Also in March, surface-to-air missiles then arrived Stringer And starstreak. In April, as the Russian offensive concentrated to the south and east, howitzers began arriving. The M777the missiles Brimstone they Harpoon. Multiple launch missile systems capable of striking between 20 and 40 kilometers away

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There breakthrough for Ukraine came in June. with the American decision to send the Himarsthe most advanced weapon so far in the Kiev army along with the M270 English. They strike accurately at a distance of 80 km and allowed the recapture of the Kharkiv region and Kherson

These have been associated with harmarrived in July, and the 120 and 155 mm light artillery pieces, which were continuously sent to the front by the Western powers together with an enormous quantity of military material ranging from radars to armored vehicles up to armed combat vehicles such as Stryker hey Bradley

In the summer and autumn it was the turn of the air defense systems, necessary to protect themselves from Russian bombing of energy infrastructure, first the Iris Tthen i Nasams and finally i Patriot Americans, the most advanced system that requires particularly complicated training

In the face of the Russian advance in Donbass, i tanksfirst i Challengers 2 English, then i Leopard 2 Germans and then the M1s abrams Americans

In all, more than 300 could arrive, necessary to try to stop the announced Russian advance in the coming months and attempt a counter-offensive. Ultimately the United States has agreed to supply the Himars with Glsdb missiles medium-long range, which expand the range of the missile system from 80 to 150 kilometers, and would force Russia to further withdraw the depots where they accumulate supplies for the front and ammunition

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The upcoming demands of Kiev are already on the plate: i F16 jets and even i submarines to regain control of the waters of the Black Sea. The allies for now they said nobut everything will probably depend on how the conflict develops in the coming weeks

The experience of the first year of war teaches us that Ukraine needed more and more powerful weaponsand certainly without Western military aid the country would have long since capitulated, despite the strenuous resistance of its military

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