The volume of military assistance provided to the United States to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war corresponds to approximately 5 percent of the Pentagon defense budget for 2023 financial year.
The American Analytical Center Hudson Institute published a report entitled “Why Victory in Ukraine is important for Americans.”
The report says that the total assistance of the United States to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which is 43.7 billion US dollars, is equivalent to about five percent of the US defense budget for 2023 financial year or two percent of the country’s gross domestic product.
“Ukraine has destroyed 11,350 units of Russian military equipment since the beginning of the war, including 2164 main combat tanks, 2566 infantry combat vehicles, more than 500 artillery and rocket lapsing systems, 84 aircraft, 99 helicopters and 12 ships,” the notes noted In the document.
The Institute evaluates the natural wealth of Ukraine at 12.4 trillion dollars. According to the authors of the report, Ukraine is one of the 10 world leaders in the production of corn, wheat, barley, sunflower, sunflower oil, sunflower schrot and rapeseed. In the country there are 120 most widely used minerals in the world, including titanium, iron, lithium, coal and other most used natural wealth.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that US military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia is more than $ 43 billion.