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Ukraine is world’s third largest arms importer: SIPRI

13 March 2023 13:40 (UTC +04:00)

Ukraine is the world’s third-largest arms importer, it was noted in the report of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), APA reports citing AlJazeera.

The United States, France and South Korea were the biggest suppliers to NATO states in Europe over the past five years, while the US, Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom supplied the most weapons to Ukraine last year.

Many of the arms supplied to Ukraine, however, were second-hand items from existing stocks. They included some 228 artillery pieces and an estimated 5,000 guided artillery rockets from the US, 280 tanks from Poland and more than 7,000 anti-tank missiles from the UK, SIPRI said.