Russia still has the second largest military in the world. Russia is the largest country in the world with an area of 17 million square kilometers. Russia has set a different flag in the field of space and it is also not behind in the field of making weapons in the world.
Russia has the most nuclear weapons in the world. The Russia-Ukraine war started in February 2022 and is not over yet. According to the Pentagon report, Russia has suffered a loss of 211 billion US dollars. Apart from this, almost 335000 soldiers of Russia have been killed or injured.
Recently, Ukraine has carried out a major attack on Russia with a drone, due to which about 40 fighter jets of Russia have been seriously injured and Russia has suffered a loss of about 7 billion US dollars.
Russia is the largest country in the world. Along with being the largest country in the world, it is also strong in every way, whether it is military or in the matter of oil and natural gas. Whereas Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe.
Ukraine is neither bigger than Russia nor does it have a bigger economy nor is it bigger than Russia in terms of military, yet a country like Ukraine has kept Russia trapped in a war for 3 years.
So now in this article we will know who is more powerful between Ukraine and Russia and which is the power that is supplying weapons to Ukraine to fight against Russia.
The biggest reason for the war between Russia and Ukraine is Ukraine’s membership of NATO because a country like Russia does not want Ukraine to join NATO. Russia considers Ukraine’s joining NATO as a threat.
Ukraine is no match for Russia in terms of army. Once upon a time Ukraine was a part of USSR which has now become Russia.
Military budget and countries area
Russia is the largest country in the world. Russia is about 5.5 times bigger than India but Ukraine is only the second largest country in Europe, so there is a huge difference between Russia and Ukraine in terms of area. The area of Russia is 17 Million square kilometers while the area of Ukraine is 6.3 lakh square kilometers.
According to recent reports, the total population of Russia is about 15 crores while the total population of Ukraine is about 4 crores, so Russia is bigger than Ukraine in terms of population too.
Russia is the third largest country in the world in terms of military budget. Russia’s military budget is approximately 126 billion US dollars. Ukraine’s military budget is approximately 64.7 billion US dollars which is almost half of Russia’s military budget.
Tank and military strength
The Russian army has about 9 lakh active personnel and Russia has about 20 lakh soldiers in reserve, while Ukraine has only 2 lakh active personnel and about 10 lakh in reserve.
The Russian army is quite modern and is equipped with modern weapons, while in comparison Ukraine is not so modern, although the Ukrainian army is being provided support and weapons from Western countries, due to which it can be said that in today’s times, the Ukrainian army is also gradually becoming modern.
Russia has around 12,500 combat military tanks and over 30,000 armoured military vehicles, whereas Ukraine has only 7,000 combat military tanks and only 2,500 armoured military vehicles.
Ukraine and Russia air power
The Russian Air Force is considered one of the most powerful air forces in the world. Russia has about 4255 aircrafts, both big and small, including 809 fighter aircrafts, 730 dedicated attack helicopters, 559 attack helicopters and 1547 normal helicopters.
Ukraine also has MIG-29, Su 25, Su 27 and F-16 which are considered 4th generation fighter jets. The number of all these aircraft is around 300 to 350, which means Ukraine is far behind Russia even in terms of fighter aircraft. In terms of total military aircraft, Ukraine is almost 6 times behind Russia.
4th generation and advanced fighter jets like F16 have been supplied to Ukraine by western countries.
Ukraine and Russia Naval power
With 10 aircraft carriers, America has the most powerful navy in the world, while Russia ranks third in terms of navy.
Russia has an aircraft carrier of 55000 tons and about 600 ships including frigates and destroyers. Apart from this, there are 30 submarines out of which 10 are considered nuclear submarines, which means that Russia has a large naval fleet.
Ukraine neither has any submarine nor any aircraft carrier nor any ship, be it a frigate or a destroyer, Ukraine has small patrolling ships and that’s it.
Ukraine and Russia missile and nuclear capacity
Russia is the world leader in terms of nuclear weapons but Ukraine is not even close to it.Russia has approximately 5,500 nuclear weapons.
Russia has a lot of missiles ranging from small to large, such as hypersonic, supersonic and subsonic. Russia has long range missiles like R37 and many more.
Russia also has supersonic and mid-range missiles like Brahmos, whose range is about 300 kilometers, although this missile has been made jointly by India and Russia, in which India also has participation.
Apart from this, Russia has S400 and S500 missile defense systems which are acknowledged by the world. Recently, under Operation Sindoor, the world has seen the power of the S400 missile defense system.
Again Ukraine cannot compete with Russia in terms of missile and defense systems and every system made by Russia is of advanced level. All the missile and defense systems that Ukraine has are provided by Western countries and America.
Ukraine has not been able to make any missile and defense system on its own till now. There are only 9 countries in the world that have nuclear weapons and Ukraine is not even among those countries.
Ukraine has been fighting a war with a powerful country like Russia for almost 3 years, which clearly means that NATO and Western countries are heavily supporting it.