Bloomberg: West delivers over 4,000 pieces of military equipment to Ukraine

Ukraine’s allies have provided more than 4,000 armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, aircraft and other weapon systems to help Kyiv fight Russia, Bloomberg reports, citing the Dutch intelligence defence analysis website and warfare research group Oryx.

Now, Ukraine is reportedly receiving more lethal arms from NATO’s most powerful members.

More than 400 Soviet-era tanks, around 300 armoured vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles, and 1,100 armoured personnel carriers were delivered to Ukraine since Russia launched the special military operation on February 24, 2022, the research group said.

In addition, more than 1,540 infantry mobile vehicles have been delivered. The Ukrainian army also received 300 towed howitzers, 95 reconnaissance vehicles, and over 400 drones.

The transfer of dozens of attack aircraft and helicopters was also mentioned. At the same time, journalists stress that the figures may be approximate.

The UK government has recently stated it would provide Kyiv with Challenger 2s, among NATO’s most powerful top-shelf main battle tanks. That followed announcements from France, the US and Germany that they would provide Kyiv with fighting vehicles and has raised pressure on governments to give Ukraine more of the alliance’s best-armoured vehicles designed to destroy other tanks and take back territory from an enemy.