Heavily armed Russian troops are pushing rapidly towards Ukraine's capital of Kyiv, and US officials are warning the city could fall within days. Here's how the two country's military capabilities stack up.
The military capabilities of these two nations are so imbalanced that Ukraine's defiant president, Volodymyr Zelensky, implored his Western allies overnight to do more than impose sanctions to get Russian troops off Ukrainian soil.Here's how the two country's military capabilities stack up. Defense spending Russian tanks move across the town of Armyansk in northern Crimea.
"Ukrainian numbers are more difficult because everything they have is now mobilized and they have called in reservists."Weaponry and vehiclesA Ukrainian infantry combat vehicle standing guard on the outskirts of Kyiv on Tuesday. There is a lot to compare here -- attack aircraft, armored vehicles, surface-to-air missiles -- but in general, Russia simply has more of everything. Russia has more than 15,800 armored fighting vehicles, for example, to Ukraine's 3,300.
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