Western weapons have been flooding into Ukraine over the last few days as NATO transport move cargo to an airfield in Poland near the border with Ukraine.
The cargo is then moved into Ukraine by road to assist in the fight against Russia.
🚨 #UKRAINE | Western weapons have been flooding into Ukraine over the last few days. This video shows just one day of NATO transport aircraft moving cargo to Poland near the border with Ukraine. The cargo is then moved into Ukraine by road to assist in the fight against Russia. pic.twitter.com/qAkLOjtoO9
— George Allison (@geoallison) March 8, 2022
‘We’ve got lethal and non-lethal aid into Ukraine since the invasion’ says Defence Secretary Ben Wallace recently confirmed.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace confirms that the UK has been able to get "lethal and non-lethal" weapons into Ukraine
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 28, 2022
In an interview with Sky News, Ben Wallace confirmed that the UK is sending supplies to Ukraine.
What is being sent?
The below table, currently being updated, lists who has so far given what.
I’m currently helping to produce the table below for this Wikipedia page as part of efforts to have information collated in one place, the table is being shared here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0.
| State | Aid provided |
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 Australia | Australian Government approved military aid for Ukraine: |
 Austria | Chancellor – Karl Nehammer approved military aid for Ukraine:
|
 Azerbaijan | President – Ilham Aliyev approved aid for Ukraine:
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 Belgium | Belgian Government announced that it will send Ukraine the following: |
 Bulgaria |
|
 Canada | Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau approved military aid for Ukraine:
|
 Croatia | Croatian Minister of Defence – Mario Banožić approved military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine: |
 Czech Republic | Czech Ministry of Defense approved military aid for Ukraine: |
 Denmark |
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 Estonia |
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 Finland | The Finnish Government approved financial and military aid for Ukraine:
|
 France | President – Emmanuel Macron |
 Germany | Chancellor – Olaf Scholz approved military aid for Ukraine:
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 Greece |
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 Hungary |
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 Ireland | Minister for Foreign Affairs – Simon Coveney approved military aid for Ukraine: |
 Israel |
|
 Italy | Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs – Luigi Di Maio approved military aid for Ukraine: |
 Japan | Prime Minister – Fumio Kishida approved military aid for Ukraine: |
 Latvia |
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 Lithuania |
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 Netherlands | Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation – Schreinemacher, Minister of Foreign Affairs – Hoekstra and Minister of Defence – Ollongren approved military aid for Ukraine on 18 February 2022 for a total value of €7.4 million:[53][54]
Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation – Schreinemacher, Minister of Foreign Affairs – Hoekstra and Minister of Defence – Ollongren approved military aid for Ukraine on 27 February 2022:[55][56][57]
|
 New Zealand |
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 Norway | Prime Minister – Jonas Gahr Støre approved humanitarian aid for Ukraine:
(Flown to Poland on Feb 28 afternoon, 2022.[61]) |
 Poland |
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 Portugal | President – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa approved military aid for Ukraine: |
 Romania | President – Klaus Iohannis approved military aid for Ukraine: |
 Slovakia | Slovakian Government approved the following aid: |
 South Korea |
|
 Spain | King – Felipe VI approved military aid for Ukraine: |
 Sweden | Minister of Defence Peter Hultqvist together with Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson proposed on 27 February 2022 military aid for Ukraine which was approved by the Riksdag on the 28 February:[79]
Development Aid Minister Matilda Ernkrans presented on 27 February 2022 100 million Swedish krona towards humanitarian aid in Ukraine distributed as follows:[82][83]
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 Taiwan |
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 Turkey |
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 United Kingdom |
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 United States | Former President – Barack Obama approved military aid for Ukraine:
Former President – Donald Trump approved military aid for Ukraine:
President – Joe Biden approved military aid for Ukraine:
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| Intergovernmental organization | Aid provided |
|---|---|
 EU | |
 NATO |
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To quote WC ‘Give us the tools and we will finish the job’.
Interesting to see neutral Sweden and Finland supplying lethal aid to Ukraine.
They really want Russia’s interest in expansion to end with Ukraine.
I think that is very true. I suspect most of the countries here are sick of Putin’s paranoia. This is payback for years of threatening, cheating and lying from Putin.
Hi Andrew, As I am sure you are aware Finland has ‘only’ been independent from Russia since 1917, and Putin has already made veiled threats if they should try to join the EU or NATO. I am also aware that Russian troops have been ‘getting lost’ on the Norweigian / Russia boarder and have been pointed in the right direction by Norweigian forces on a number of occasions each year for some time now. I’m not aware of anything specific for Sweden but I bet they have had ‘isssues’ recently as well. So I think we’ll see Sweden and Finland… Read more »
I think Sweden has had incursions by Russian subs.
CR, whilst I think you are spot on re Finland and Sweden by becoming NATO member states, I wonder if that will elevate Russian paranoia. That being said, things are pretty bad already.
Russian aircraft entered Swedish airspace the other day.. Sweden reinforced Gotland due to its dominant position in the Baltic and increasing interest by Russian Forces.
I also read undersea cables from Norway to a satellite station on Svalbard “disappeared” .
Finland works closely with Nato in any case and will replace its Hornets with F35. Its neutral on name only in reality. Its Nato compliant basically so could switch symbolically any day they vote
that is interesting indeed!
Ukraine has now dealt with two Russian generals:
• Major General Vitaly Gerasimov
• Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky
Any chance they could deal with the president too!?
In an ideal world… 🤞🏻
I wonder if they were beaded onto with the help of USAF and RAF Rivet Joints.
One killed by a sniper, another in battle near Kharkiv.
The Ukrainians learned of the later after an intercept of an unencrypted call on a mobile phone from within Ukraine to the Russian defence ministry. The Russians communication systems appear to be in a mess, with the result they are using methods that the Ukrainians can listen in on.
Thats a ridiculous school boy error to make, or maybes Putin wanted rid of him for lack of progress and rang his mobile!?
Perhaps it has been scrambled by someone?
Like some naughty naval person who cut all the German undersea cables in the channel in the first days of WW1.
The FSB scrambler phones apparently rely on there being a 3G or 4G mobile signal, if theres no mobile reception they dont work 😂
The same ones the Russians have been blowing up !
Yup,
Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Pissing Poor Performance… but shh don’t tell the Russians.
😎 CR
😂
Are they using Nokia 3210’s or something!?
Apparently Russia has been targeting mobile masts. They would have better leaving them intact and using WhatsApp 😒
Yeh, two commanders from from the same army group way too close to the frontlines. The suggestion is that they were trying to impose their will on the battle – so that went well then! Their officer corp should be able to deal with local issues without a General coming forward to sort things out! Begs the question how well trained or prepared were the frontline commanders? The impact on the morale of the Russian troops, not to mention the potential disruption to the command structure could well explain why Kharkiv is still holding out. What with the Russian Air… Read more »
Yes it seems that the Soviet approach of top-down micromanaging so that commanders on the ground are poor at independent action is drawing senior commanders closer to the front to sort things out.
Is there a single area where the Russian Armed Forces have performed well? Everything from their airborne and special forces to logistics has been met with mishap.
The artillery have the ability to hit a large town as a target? Other than that they seem totally useless.
Hi Sean, If you had asked me 2 weeks ago what would happen if Russia attacked the Ukraine I would have said 7 to 10 days to take everything east of the Dniper River. If the Ukrainians failed to get their regulars across the river before being encircled then the whole country would be lost in two to three weeks tops. Now? This could go on for months. The Ukrainians are putting up a surprisingly effective defence but the Russians performance has been very surprising for all the wrong reasons. I think their plan was over complicated, their command structure… Read more »
Hi CR, well before this all kicked I thought it’d be; • seize the rebel republics in the Donbas and a land bridge to the Crimea, to secure its water supply and take full control of the Sea of Azov • take Eastern Ukraine – left bank of Dnieper – with Kyiv partitioned • decapitation by capturing Kyiv through a lightning advance from Belarus, with the rest of the country mopped up later. They went for the last option and failed miserably, possibly in part because it was so obvious? But they have even failed with the least ambitious scenario.… Read more »
I think we’ve all been surprised just how badly this has gone for the Russians although I’m still a bit vague on what the objectives actually are/were. I suspect that there might have been a sliding scale of success with the bare minimum being the breakaway regions and anything else (up to and including the whole country) a bonus. That being based on The West’s reaction more than The Ukrainians (who were desperate to be liberated etc..) reaction. It was always a bit vague, deliberately so I imagine so at any point the Russians could stop and claim they had… Read more »
Belgian guns are FNCs, assault rifles – not machine guns
Don’t spoil it: sounded gangster!😁
Spanish contribution is pitiful.
They did naff all in WW2, cant expect history to alter the mindset.
Oh they helped a lot in WW2 just Google Blue Division.
There’s a surprise fought on the Eastern front as part of the Wehrmarcht.
What many don’t realise is that Brazil fought on the side of the Allies and maintained a force of 25,000 troops, plus supporting aircraft (supplied by the US), as part of Mark Clark’s army in Italy from late 1944. The Braxilian Navy fought in the Battle of the Atlantic from as early 1942.
Just thought I’d throw at in randamly 🙂
Cheers CR
Yeah it’s such a shame Brazil get’s no coverage for there contribution. Trying to find an english language book on the war that even gives them a sentence is almost impossible. When it comes to S.America and WW2 they think Argentina and refuge for post war Nazis. One i’d throw out there is one you probably know but most don’t. The Belgian Battalion at the battle of Imjin during the Korean war. We’re always quick to jump on the Americans for ignoring us during the war but we’re just as bad.
Arn’t we just! The Indian Army suffered badly in 1914/15 but played a major role in stabilising the line for the British Army until the reserves could be brought in, but how many people in the UK actually know that the Indian’s even fought in both World Wars! I didn’t know about the Belgians Luxembourgers part in the Korean War (to be honest I need to read more about that conflict). Seems they put up a serious fight! The one thing I can say about that war is that it until last week I didn’t think there would be anything… Read more »
Sorry didn’t get notification. When in doubt Wikipedia. Not so much the articles but the sources at the bottom are very good.
The Brazilian forces who fought in WW2 had a great nickname: Cobras Fumantes or The Smoking Snakes. “Before the FEB entered combat, the expression “a cobra vai fumar” (“the snake will smoke”) was often used in Brazil in a context similar to “when pigs fly“; soldiers in the division subsequently called themselves Cobras Fumantes (literally, Smoking Snakes) and wore a shoulder patch depicting a green snake smoking a pipe.”
I forgot to add “FEB” in the quote above stands for “Force Expedicionaria Brasilia” or in English “Brazilian Expeditionary Force”.
Força Expedicionária Brasileira
Thank you for the correction. Sadly Brazilian Portuguese is not one of my languages.
There is a brilliant Spanish film about the Spanish troops in Russia, a Spanish copper who was drafted has to find a serial killer. I’ve got it on DVD somewhere, I think its called Frozen (not THAT Frozen !!!!). Worth a look if you can find it.
EDIT TO ADD – That film is Frozen Silence
All the while being paid off by the Empire in order to not officially enter the war!!
Yep. Supply bases for U-boats as well.
Agreed. Shameful.
Italy has not supplied very much?
“Hiding” in the EU figures perhaps as they get a lot of gas from Russia I understand?
The funding they supplied no doubt came from an EU fund anyways.
Italy and Germany are the two most dependent on Russian gas. The Italians recently had a minister in Algeria to see if they could buy more gas from them.
All EU countries need to find alternative sources of gas.
Its a shame Russia stepped into the Syrian conflict and put an end to the middle east gas line that would have ran through to Europe.
You think that’s a coincidence?… the Russian economy depends on exporting its natural resources, a middle-east gas pipeline threatened its market share in Europe.
Similarly the predicted gas fields off the coast of Ukraine would have given Europe an alternative.
Not at all thats why I mentioned it, Syria dropping into crisis was perfect for Putin.
Does Turkey not plan on tapping the same gas fields or are they too far away?
Difficult to say if it was securing the Russia base in the Med or the pipeline that was the primary driver. Two dead birds with a single stone I think.
It’s an issue of territorial waters, though if a field spans them… Most of the expected finds were in waters around Crimea.
Putin may be a compete nutter but he has been a better player at the more aggressive “conflict of powers” version of Geopolitics than the west.
Well that’s because he has no scruples, ethics or morals. So more a Lance Armstrong figure.
It does always help having no scruples, ethics or morals in Geopolitics. It is a fortunate weakness of the west that we do have these. The idea of the US without some form of moral compass would be scary indeed. But it does mean our leaders actual need to be far stronger around red lines. one of the worst mistakes the west has made was around Syria and chemical weapons, there is little point in setting down a set of international rules if your not willing to enforce them.
In this alternate world of the US without morals, you’d all be speaking English.
Correction John, I would be speaking America English, which to be quit frank is just terrifying.
Obama backing down on that is what allowed the massive increase in Russian involvement.
The West still needs to step up its efforts against “McMafia” money in London, Switzerland, Luxemburg & the tax havens.
Why, what have the Scots done wrong?
😛
How much money do you think is tied up in Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan heck last time I went to Marbella and Cyprus was Russians blowing fortunes on champagne all over the place. Its not just London and Switzerland.
Malta is awash with Russians too: the Maltese were probably the most blatant in selling citizenship for money.
Yeah very true have seen the adverts for the Maltese passports online many times before!
This is from a Gruan piece in 2018: Over the past decade, £68bn has flowed from Russia into Britain’s offshore satellites such as the British Virgin Islands, Cayman, Gibraltar, Jersey and Guernsey. That’s seven times more money than has flowed directly from Russia into the UK. (On top of that, some £94bn has poured out of Russia into Cyprus, £13bn into Switzerland, and £23bn into the Netherlands, which has its own network of tax havens.) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/25/how-britain-let-russia-hide-its-dirty-money And this from the Irish Press wrt Ireland: More than €118bn was funnelled from Ireland to Russia between 2005 and 2017, a new research… Read more »
Looks like a lot of Russian money is heading to Dubai. Perhaps why the UAE has not condemned Russia.
James I agree, this constant mime suggesting that London is the centre of Russian money is nonsense peddled by lazy journalists. As someone who has worked in this area both designing AML systems and writing legal procedures Malta, Cyprus, Panama, Bahamas and Switzerland are much more central to Russian dirty money.
For sure, oligarch money is in a lot of places, but we need to make sure our parts of the World are clean. The UK Gov is finally bringing in new laws. Good, but they need the skilled police teams to enforce them.
I lived in the south of France for several years and the place is awash with dirty money and a shit load of it is Russian.
“A sunny place for shady people”.
Not sure the MiG 29s are going to materialise, the US/Poland seem to be getting cold feet according to the latest reports. Seems its a matter of how they are backfilled with F-16s, and also how to “de-NATO” the MiGs. However, where there’s a will there’s a way.
Sign the V5C over to Ukraine and Poland becomes the last keeper, surely transfer of assets would de-Nato the jets?
It cant be technology transfer as all the weapons handed over by Nato states so far to Ukraine would fall into the same category surely.
I think the Poles are a bit concerned by an immediate drop in their available air power as it would take time to train their pilots and ground crews for the F16. I think NATO would have to station an equivalent number of extra warplanes in Poland as cover while this was being done.
Ben Wallace is also observing that Putin might view this as an escalation beyond what’s currently being supplied to Ukraine; which Putin’s not best pleased about.
I would say the Poles have a very valid reason. There are still major armoured forces in the West of Belarus facing the Polish border, which are both Russian and Belarus. To make matters worse a lot of the big Belarus airfields have now been seen to have lots more Russian aircraft. Perhaps the biggest indication that something is going to kick off, is that there are now a lot of Mainstay and other IL-76 based ISTAR aircraft in Belarus. This is probably a move by the Russian Air force (RuAF) to try to gain air superiority over at least… Read more »
Didn’t Ben Wallace say he would back the transfer and ensure Poland was defended?
Time’s long past to please Putin. He escalated by invading-which he promised he wouldn’t. Ukraine is “not best pleased about” being brutally invaded, NATO about being threatened with nukes or being told who it can & can’t consider for membership. We need to stand up to him, not cower & navel gaze.
A burgler doesn’t much like getting caught & sent to prison, but we mustn’t pander to criminals.
Yep, this is the problem. However, I’d argue that, assuming the F16s can be delivered immediately, a half dozen F35s committed for the next six months, combined with some green F16s would make up for the 28 Mig-29s. The US could provide four, the UK two?
John just to close the loop it appears Poland are not worried anymore @1915 today 08/03/22 Poland announced full transfer of all Mig-29s to the Ukrainian air force.
Excellent table, and well laid out by lethal / financial / humanitarian columns on Wiki.
I see that Lego have sent aid.
Bricks to cripple the Russian Army, by soldiers standing on them in the dark.
(Plus $110 million of humanitarian funding)
Should anybody want to contribute donations directly to the Ukrainians fight the details are here:
https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi
They need precision NLOS and loitering weapons, it will be way more significant than a bunch of MIG-29’s that might never materialise. You don’t need to risk a jet flying through their air defence network to smash a tank column well over the horizon. There’s also around three million military age men in Ukraine being asked to take up arms. 30,000 signed up in one day alone in Kyiv. None of these guys have body armour, a couple of thousand flak jackets here and there is not enough. What we did before the start of the war was amazing. It’s… Read more »
The maths for NATO shouldn’t be difficult;
• a NLAW or Javelin for every Russian tank and AFV,
• a Stinger or Piorun for every Russian helicopter and warplane in theatre
• enough body-armour, weapons, and rounds for every Ukrainian who wants to fight.
Agree 100%. At least the Russians are donating a lot of kit to them. More so than anyone else.
Yeh, particularly generous when it comes to SAM systems it seems. Of course, I think it is a bit much of them to expect Ukrainian farmers to take time out of their busy day to complete the delivery..!
SAM
Engineer Vehicle?
APC
Very poor customer service, but I think the customer compliants department might be getting the message.
SAM2
Cheers CR
Ah, my first video of a MBTLAW being fired , not that good , but it shows how they are using roof tops in which to target enemy armour with a top attack weapon to good effect. Just misses the top of the roof mind.
https://twitter.com/uaweapons/status/1501149671229636608?s=21
Hi Farouk,
That was a close one. I wonder what the arming distance is or is the warhead armed from the get go?
According to the list Ukraine has enough anti tank & air missiles to nearly destroy every tank Russia has (twice) ? hope they get the tactical advice to use effectively
Have been used against ships aswell from what ive read online!
yep would be very effective against modern warships as soon as they’ve within couple of k paper thin compared to a tank
Good to hear they can find multiple uses!!
Very Mills Marauders like. 84mm Carl Gustav makes a hell of a bang if it hit the water line or sensitive radar equipment on a Ruskie warship.
Hopefully quite a few have been shipped to Odessa for the upcoming attack, they somehow need to hold onto the coastline.
The challenge of course is getting them in the right hands, in the right places, at the right time.
No country has thus far publicly agreed to transfer Mig-29s or any other fighter aircraft to Ukraine. The Poles have refused several times.
Im confused by the politics of the Mig 29 transfer. We all agree Putin’s Rusdia is the aggressor launching a war of terror against the Ukraine. Yet because it might upset him NATO is not willing to gift Ukraine 30-40 soviet era mig29s and maybe a dozen SU25 frogfoots. The Polish might be anxious as their pilots will need to retrain on any replacement F16s. Thats fine do the mig transfer in batches. 10 at a time in 3 batches say every 6 weeks. To back cover the Mig transfer NATO can surely muster and deploy 30 aircraft for say… Read more »
It’s all public because the EU Foreign Minister blathered about it, and I think they don’t want to make themselves the next target.
The Polish may also be concerned about losing alot of air based capability for the short term.
especially when you hear that Belarussia army is now fighting and Syrian non-regulars have been brought in for their FIBUA skills. Alright for them but not for Ukraine to seek outside help?
I agree Mr B. Pandering/appeasing Putin went out the door when he invaded. We’re giving him far too much leeway by not pushing back hard & we’re sacrificing many lives in the process. Failing to effectively deter & respond is our biggest weakness.
Gareth and Mr Bell Poland have now confirmed full transfer of their 29s
And very reliant on Russia for arms sadly.
Very good shout they do have a fleet, im fairly sure if France approaches them with a deal for some sort of Mirage as a replacement on a long term payment basis they will jump at it.
Anyone know how much the National Bank Ukraine has collected yet for the war fighting fund? Hope my contribution was well spent.
It’s imperative. Though I’d have us drive Russia back to their borders rather than reward blatent aggresion.
I imagine the Baltic States are giving up significant parts of their own inventory, I hope they’re replaced asap and for free.
Well done to all countries concerned, and shows an excellent western unity against a fucking crazy nob jockey! Interesting, and very useful donation from the Dutch of 5 old school locating radars! Good bit of kit to enable the Ukrainian D30s etc to do some accurate counter Bty fire!
We need to be encouraging more non-NATO support. It all looks a bit one-sided. And who else outside of UK can view this information?
I have to be honest I am no professional of military expertise, but I can’t believe why of all the lethal aid supplied these Government’s have not sent tens of thousands of QUAD BIKES imagine the Ukrainian Reserve’s being able to travel speedily through all terrain under cover of large wooded Forested areas & then launch NLAW & Javelins ???
When will air defence weapons systems be put in place in western Ukraine to stop further Russian bomb attacks?