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Modern War Has Shattered The Myth About The Effectiveness Af NATO Armaments

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The armed conflict in Ukraine has shown the low efficiency of modern armament of NATO countries. All the tanks, air defence systems, artillery and other military equipment supplied by Western countries proved incapable of ensuring success in Ukraine and created reputational risks for the countries that produced them.

Washington has drawn a line on prolonging the Ukrainian conflict, having previously sent significant military and military-technical aid to Ukraine. By the end of last year, Washington had spent nearly $20 billion on arming Ukraine - almost double what the United States had given in 2021 to 12 other countries combined, including Afghanistan ($4.1 billion), Israel ($3.3 billion) and Egypt ($1.3 billion).

According to the Russian Defence Ministry, Western countries have supplied Ukraine with 5,220 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers, 28 aircraft, 87 helicopters, 23,000 unmanned aerial vehicles. As well as over 1,300 artillery systems, including 494 howitzers M777, Caezar, Paladin and Krab, 2 million 650 thousand shells of 155 mm and 122 mm calibre. About 100,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been trained in the USA and Europe.

The largest number of armoured vehicles supplied to Ukraine are American-made. As of the end of November, according to open data, 504 vehicles were in question. More than 800 more units have been promised but have not been delivered yet. Such data is contained in the Ukraine Support Tracker project of the Kiel Institute for World Economy (Germany).

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