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WASHINGTON \u2014 In the early morning of Feb. 24<\/a>, Russia began a fresh invasion of Ukraine<\/a>. Data from a recent report compares the military forces of the two countries and provides details on the Russian-backed separatist forces in Donetsk and Luhansk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t Russia\u2019s first military intervention in the European country, the International Institute for Strategic Studies wrote in its 2022 \u201cMilitary Balance\u201d report<\/a>. Notably, since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, \u201cEuropean states have turned a corner in terms of their defence spending,\u201d the think tank wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following information on select weapons systems \u2014 with footnotes at the bottom of this article \u2014 is also available on IISS\u2019s Military Balance+ database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Data as of November 2021.<\/b><\/li>
  • Armored Fighting Vehicles<\/b> are armored combat vehicles with a combat weight of at least 6 metric tons.<\/li>
  • Artillery<\/b> are weapons (including guns, howitzers, multiple-rocket launchers and mortars) with a caliber greater than 100mm for artillery pieces and 80mm and above for mortars, capable of engaging ground targets with indirect fire.<\/li>
  • Surface-to-Surface Missile Launchers<\/b> are vehicles for transporting and firing surface-to-surface ballistic and cruise missiles.<\/li>
  • Air Defense<\/b> includes guns, directed-energy weapons and surface-to-air missile launchers designed to engage fixed-wing, rotary-wing and unmanned aircraft. Systems primarily intended to intercept missiles rather than aircraft are excluded.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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